I never complained of the vicissitudes of fortune, nor suffered my face to be overcast at the revolution of the heavens, except once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes. I came to the chief of Kfah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience, and exclaimed,

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Ernest Hemingway

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small:Love so amazing, so divineDemands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

Francis Bacon

Don't say a word, I wanna hear love speak.

Tarkan

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

Douglas Horton

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

John B. S. Haldane

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

Corrine Brown

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Walter Jon Williams

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Calvin Coolidge