When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Orison Swett Marden

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

George Vaillant

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

Mahatma Gandhi

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Ellie Goulding

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Roger Federer

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

James A. Baldwin

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!

William Shakespeare

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Elias Canetti

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

Kalpana Chawla

There are very few places left on Earth where there's been so little human impact.

Stephen Richards