A man working is a symbol of mankind at its best. It is a monument of concentration, of pooling knowledge and experience, of fitting facts and figures, towards the creation of usefulness.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Tom Shadyac

I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

Christie Brinkley

Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.

Nikita Ivanovich Panin

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Jose Marti

Americans have discovered fear.

Jose Saramago

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

William Hazlitt

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in , and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?

Christopher Hitchens

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

Meg Cabot

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Karl Marx