I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.

Julia Quinn

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

Francis Schaeffer

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.

Robert Collier

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Wallace Stevens

Before man is life and death, good and evil; that which he shall choose shall be given him. Ecclesiasticus

Bible

I decided Conrad was right after all. Ilsa was meant to be with Laszlo. That was the way it was always supposed to end. Rick was nothing but a tiny piece of her past, a piece that she would always treasure, but that was all, because history is just that. History.

Jenny Han

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Oprah Winfrey

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/chance.htm

Dwight D Eisenhower, from The Ch

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over.And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

Nancy Werlin

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Daniel Radcliffe