For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

Suze Orman

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Alfred North Whitehead

I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.

Jerry Jeff Walker

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

Paulo Coelho

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Edward Abbey

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

Arthur Compton

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Alain de Botton, on Arthur Schop

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

Hal Borland

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Tim Burton