Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mason Cooley

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Paul Klee

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

Richard Steele

How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Pericles

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

Kim Edwards

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

John Cheever

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Stephanie Cutter

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Oscar Wilde

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.~Amber

Robin Hobb

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

Vince Flynn