To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. Anne Elliot: It would not be in the nature of any woman who truly loved. Captain Harvile: Do you claim that for your sex? Anne Elliot: We do not forget you as soon as you forget us. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You always have business of some sort or other to take you back into the world. Captain Harvile: I won't allow it to be any more man's nature than women's to be inconstant or to forget those they love or have loved. I believe the reverse. I believe... Let me just observe that all histories are against you, all stories, prose, and verse. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which did not have something to say on women's fickleness. Anne Elliot: But they were all written by men.

Jane Austen

I never wanted to be a celebrity I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

Sarah Jessica Parker

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me, the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. But, since my duty has not been incompatible with the admission of that remembrance, I have given it a place in my heart.

Charles Dickens

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

William Ellery Channing

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

Stephen Hawking

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Swami Vivekananda

People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY.

Hans F. Hasen

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Charles Churchill