Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

Earl Nightingale

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

George Orwell

Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.

Brian Aldiss

Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.

Fawad Khan

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

John W. Gardner

I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

Elayne Boosler

Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean.

Rick Riordan

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

Krysten Ritter

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof

Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Haruki Murakami

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Anna Paglia, From a comm