Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Steve Maraboli

A king's son is no nobler than his company.

Scottish Proverb

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Emma Goldman

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

C. E. M. Joad

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Charles Caleb Colton

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Gaston Bachelard

Better to aim at a star than shoot down a well; you'll hit higher.

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Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jeremy Schwartz

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Voltaire