One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Patrick Henry Pearse

The rest, is silence.

William Shakespeare

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

M.J. Chrisman

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

Julian Casablancas

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Rick Perry

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Alexandra Ripley

It is sometimes a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is changing the conditions of warfare. In the next great war, we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

George Orwell

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

Brian Eno

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

William Albert Allard

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes