In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

E. T. Bell

Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.

Robertson Davies

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Albert Camus

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Charles Caleb Colton

You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

Yiddish Proverb

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

Benjamin Harrison

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Matt Ridley

But then I sigh, with a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Frances Mayes

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

Dorothy Hamill

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

Blake Lively