I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

Beauty has often overpowered the resolutions of the firm, and the reasonings of the wise, roused the old to sensibility, and subdued the rigorous to softness

Samuel Johnson

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

James Dyson

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

James Parton

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Napoleon Bonaparte

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Charles Simmons

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Oscar Wilde

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

Kahlil Gibran

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Wayne Coyne

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Ken Hill

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis de Tocqueville