No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Laurence Sterne

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Joseph Conrad

The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.

Robert Alan

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...

Neil Gaiman

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

Dr. Porsche

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?

William Shakespeare

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

Banana Yoshimoto

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

Loretta Lynn

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Ron Fournier