The poet felt completely free now as he stood there on the deck in his collar and boots, sailing past new and ever newer districts; even if he did not own this land's resources, he owned its beauty.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Lou Gerstner

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Thomas Carlyle

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

John Keats

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Jonah Lehrer

Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it.

Steve Maraboli

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Michael Phelps

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

Giada De Laurentiis

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

Chris Evans

The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.

William Adams Brown

We have met with so overwhelming an affliction in the death of our beloved Willie, a being too precious for this earth. All that human skill could do, was done for our sainted boy. I fully believe the severe illness [scarlet fever], he passed through, now, almost two years since, was but a warning to us, that one so pure, was not to remain long here and at the same time, he was lent us a little longer to try us and wean us from a world whose chains were fastening around us; and when the blow came it found us so unprepared to meet it. …He has fulfilled his mission and we are left desolate. When I think over his short but happy childhood, how much comfort, he always was to me, and how fearfully I always found my hopes concentrating on so good a boy as he was - when I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?’.

Mary Ann Todd Lincoln, From lett

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Tony Wilson

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

Tahereh Mafi