As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet

In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Robert Morgan

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm doing my best to raise my son and give him a nurturing, loving, and caring environment so he can grow up and be the best version of himself.

Miranda Kerr

I was too young that time to value her,But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together,Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,Still we went coupled and inseparable.

William Shakespeare

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Marc Andreessen

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

Steve Martin

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

John Hodgman

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato