Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

Grigoris Deoudis

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

Rachael Ray

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Zig Ziglar

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Matt Ridley

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Voltaire

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Paul McCartney

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve.

Evelyn Glennie

What they didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Doris Lessing

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried: For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me? Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me; None have I to protect me save Thee; Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life.

Zoroaster

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Youssou N'Dour