A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Frederica Montseny

For beauty called to beauty and there thronged at the enchanter's will The vanished hours of love that burn within the Ever-living still.

George William Russell

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.

Mark Twain

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Faith is a converter. It turns weakness into strength, barrenness into fruitfulness, death to life.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring.

Claire Danes

There is one advantage to having nothing, it never needs repair.

Frank A. Clark

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Tom Welling

The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

Salman Rushdie

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Kin Hubbard

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

David Herbert Lawrence