Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Yukio Mishima

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

Saint Basil

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Billy Connolly

Marriages maybe made in heaven, but a lot of the details have to be worked out here on earth.

Gloria Pitzer

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Tom Petty

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so little.

Phil McGraw

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Henry Ward Beecher

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

James Madison

Self-trust is the essence of heroism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Alan Bennett

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Alfred de Musset