May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

Audrey Niffenegger

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Comte De Mirabeau

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Friedrich von Schiller

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.

Steve Maraboli

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Colin Powell

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

Lindsay Wagner

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Madame Dorothe Deluzy

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.

Mario Batali

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

Dorothy Dunnett