And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?

See simplicity in the complicated.Achieve greatness in little things.

LaoTzu

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one!

Orson Welles

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

James Buchan

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

J. M. Coetzee

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

Heather O'Reilly

I give the children education.

Jackie Chan

Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

Hugh Jackman

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

Rhona Mitra

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Mark Twain