People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Who was this women?' asked Harry.'I dunno, some Ministry hag.'Mundungus considered for a moment, brow wrinkled.'Little women. Bow on top of er' head.'He frowned and then added, 'Looked like a toad.'Harry dropped his wand.Harry looked up and saw his own shock reflected in Ron and Hermione's faces. The scars on the back of right hand seemed to be tingling again.

J.K. Rowling

Success has always been a great liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

John Milton

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

Jane Haddam

A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Leslie Lamport

Winners forget they're in a race, they just love to run.

Simon Wilder

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

Annie Lennox

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Chauncey Depew

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson