All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

J. K. Rowling

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

Steve Backley

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

Victoria Principal

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

Paulo Coelho

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him.

E. M. Forster

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

Proverb

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

Laurie Halse Anderson

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Edmund Burke

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Kurt Vonnegut

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky