It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.

Charles de Lint

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

Niklaus Wirth

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Boris Pasternak

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Jennifer Aniston

The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it would otherwise be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.

Henry Hazlitt

There is nothing more dangerous to the shackles of complacency and the warden of fear than philosophy in action.

Steve Maraboli

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means that they've given it their best. That's a winner.

Walter Payton

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

Sally Ride

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams