The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.

Boris Becker

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

Alexander Smith

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Orville Wright

The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.

Elaine Seiler

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

Philip Pullman

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Aldous Huxley

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.

Zora Neale Hurston

I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.

Amy Sedaris