A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?

Rumi

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Annie Lennox

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Queen Victoria

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

Anthony Swofford

Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away.

Charles Sedley

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Washington Irving

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

Robert Wilson

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

Rhona Mitra

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

William J. H. Boetcker

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

Miguel de Cervantes