It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Madame Guizot

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

Ivanka Trump

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.

Bernard Wolfe

The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Grover Cleveland

Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

Elizabeth Gilbert

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Adele

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for -- worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.

Joe Cornish