But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

Samuel Johnson

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Napoleon Hill

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Ty Cobb

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.<br/>Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.<br/>Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.<br/>Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.<br/>Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.<br/>Elves are terrific. They beget terror.<br/>The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.<br/>No one ever said elves are nice.<br/>Elves are bad.

Terry Pratchett

Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

Albert Camus

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.

Albert Einstein

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Craig Bruce

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

Jodi Picoult

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

Juan Marichal

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Robert Frost

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Kahlil Gibran