Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Paulo Coelho

It is not needful for our dreams to be very grand nor very big. It is only needful for our dreams to be very shiny.

C. JoyBell C.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.

Edward Frederic Benson

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

William Warburton

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything--the better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself.

Bill Murray

Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Johann von Goethe