There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

Becca Fitzpatrick

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Christian Nevell Bovee

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Suzanne Fields

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

No, thou villain, thou art full of piety

William Shakespeare

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau

I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

Gerald R. Ford