The melancholy truth was that his glorious golden head had nothing in it

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

G. K. Chesterton

Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Babe Ruth

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Lana Del Rey

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

My greatest fear: repetition.

Max Frisch

We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

Paulo Coelho

As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me to serve as chairman of the peace negotiations, which ironically began six years ago this week.

George J. Mitchell

Character is what can do without success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time!

Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt