It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Bo Bennett

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl Buck

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Josh Billings

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

George W. Bush

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

C. JoyBell C.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

Muqtada al Sadr

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Jeff Foxworthy

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

Aeschylus

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Bill Gates

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Bill Gates

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

Dale Carnegie