National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

John W. Gardner

Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tear thyself from delay.

Horace

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

Laurell K Hamilton

Then there was your voiceLike a windup tin toyLike the sweetest nails on a chalkboardThat I ever heard

Michelle Dalton

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Bertrand Russell

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

Leo Tolstoy

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Sidney Sheldon

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Denis Waitley