The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

Toba Beta

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

George Eliot

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

E. J. Hobsbawm

Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.

Sydney Smith

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Leslie Fiedler

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live

Aristotle

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Helen Rowland

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Richard Bach

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Jodi Picoult

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Yogi Berra

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Junius