No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

Neale Donald Walsch

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

Karl Lagerfeld

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich von Schiller

With science fiction I think we are preparing ourselves for contact with them, whoever they may be.

Dwight Schultz

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Gloria Steinem

People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.

Emma Watson

No, a fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.

Otto von Bismarck, reply when to

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

Ellen G. White