The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

E. Lockhart

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

Bobby Rahal

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

I never see the prettiest thing -A cherry bough gone white with Spring -But what I think, How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.

Dorothy Parker, 'Cherry White',

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Bertolt Brecht

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Youssou N'Dour

All the Universe is full of the life of perfect creatures.

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovs

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Mao Zedong

Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory.

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.

Ana Monnar