Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

Carl Gustav Jung

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...

Robert Collier

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

Stephenie Meyer

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Fritz Todt

Skupljanje hrane nesumnjivo je bilo na prvom mjestu ženskih dužnosti budu?i da je taj zadatak održavao pleme na životu. Ni u jednom se trenutku pretpovijesne žene s djecom ili bez nje nisu oslanjale na svoje partnere, lovce, za nabavku hrane.

Rosalind Miles

Sad people have more sober reflections.

James Dye

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

James J. Corbett

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

We could do it, you know.What?Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.

Suzanne Collins

A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.

John Argenti

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

Donald Zimmerman

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Dame Edith Sitwell