No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.

Arabic Proverb

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

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This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

James Liter

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

P. J. Harvey

I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Taylor Lautner. I really wanted to lie down and eat Chinese food, but I kick-boxed every morning and ran. If someone was filming you with your kit off, you'd do the same thing.

Jason Isaacs

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

Sarah McLachlan

I love being around my friends and my family and spending time with my husband. I like being normal and recharging my batteries, and I feel like I have the coolest job in the world where I get to get on stage and perform and get to do a lot of really amazing things.

Carrie Underwood

Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Og Mandino