Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Margaret Thatcher

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

Alicia Machado

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

Heaven and Earth are meeting in a storm that, when it's over, will leave the air purer and the leaves fertile, but before that happens, houses will be destroyed, centuries- old trees will topple, paradises will be flooded.

Paulo Coelho

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

Kurt Vonnegut

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

Anthony Kiedis

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.

Steve Jobs

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Charles A. Garfield

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Cassandra Clare

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Anthony Rapp

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau