Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Cat Stevens

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

Hiromu Arakawa

Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty leads the way. But truth can be asserted when one is being dishonest as well.

Eric Parslow

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

Candice Bergen

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Norman Ralph Augustine

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

Donald Norman

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Will Durst

Home is pretty utopian.

Scott Adams

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.

Jane Seymour