Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

Which only goes to show that the best of us must sometimes eat our words,' Dumbledore went on, smiling.

J.K. Rowling

When I consider how my light is spentE're half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one Talent which is death to hide,Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, least he returning chide,Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd,I fondly ask; But patience to preventThat murmur, soon replies, God doth not needEither man's work or his own gifts, who bestBear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his StateIs Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speedAnd post o're Land and Ocean without rest:They also serve who only stand and waite.

John Milton, On His Blindness

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Kin Hubbard

American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.

Hubert Humphrey

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Ivan Turgenev

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Christina Milian

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.

William Dean Howells

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

Jonathan Davis

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson