To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Source Unknown

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.

Sadhu Vaswani

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

J.K. Rowling

To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it.

Jane Roberts

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

Friedrich Nietzsche

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Robert Browning

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Joan Collins

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

Orson Scott Card