If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways

William Shakespeare

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Katherine Graham

Oft expectation fails, and most oft thereWhere most it promises; and oft it hitsWhere hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare, All's Well

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Henry Fielding

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K Hamilton

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

Johnny Miller

Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

Jesus Christ

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Francis Bacon

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Jane Austen

La sua vita era ancora troppo breve, per sapere che non c'è cosa più imminente dell'impossibile, e che quanto dobbiamo sempre prevedere è l'imprevisto.

Victor Hugo

Success is not the absence of failure. Success is persistence through failure.

Aisha Tyler

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.

William Shakespeare