He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

Youth is truth.

James A. Michener

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Paulo Coelho

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.

William Shakespeare

I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.

Cynthia Payne

Health is the core of human development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

George Meredith

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

William J. H. Boetcker

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.

Ornette Coleman

Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.

Charity Tahmaseb