It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

W. Clement Stone

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinion for or against. The struggle of what one likes and what one dislikes is the disease of the mind.

Sengcan

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

Michael Jackson

Reading is not optional.

Walter Dean Myers

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Theodore Dreiser

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Natalie du Toit

hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Ayelet Waldman

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Gail Godwin

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Jacqueline Carey