It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.

George Eliot

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

I love coming back to Neath - this is home and always will be.

Katherine Jenkins

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

John Hughes

And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.

Lewis Carroll

As one looks back through the ages, all the great men are men of faith: the Newtons, Faradays, Darwins, Marconis, men with faith which they confirmed by experiment. Luther and Garibaldi, Washington and Lincoln, men of action as well as thought, were primarily men of faith. But infinitely above all, Jesus himself is the supreme example of a man of faith. Even on his cross he was absolutely confident, though as far as any human eye could see then, his faith, judged by results, was

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry Miller

Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.

Proverb

Sometimes silence can be the strongest and most compassionate answer.

Steve Maraboli

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.

Lynda Barry