Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Stephen Richards

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

Thomas Gray

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann von Goethe

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

Corey Hart

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.

Andrea Dworkin

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

John Donne

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

will.i.am

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

Edward W. Howe

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Lucy Larcom

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell