In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles M. Schwab

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

William James

Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you?

Harper Lee

And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina - it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...

J.K. Rowling

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded, had the internal combustion engine, had the technology, and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.

Eric Ries

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Carol Burnett

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Walter Benjamin

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

Elizabeth Kenny

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Chief Seattle

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

Cassandra Clare