Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Is this one of those days where we all stalk out in fury? Because I simply haven't got the energy for it.

Cassandra Clare

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

George Orwell

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Thomas Carlyle

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

Joan Collins

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Thomas Carlyle

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Salman Rushdie

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

George Shultz

No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow men.

Beran Wolfe

Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses: fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White