The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

George Eliot

Jealousy is such an ugly emotion.

Cassandra Clare

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Hannah Arendt

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Bennett Miller

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Joan Rivers

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do.

Ian McDonald

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.

Charles R. Swindoll

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

Chretien Malesherbes

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.

Kurt Vonnegut