Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.

The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold.

Thomas Mann

My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.

Marilyn Manson

Industry need not wish.

Benjamin Franklin

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Leonardo da Vinci

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

Mike Mills

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

Virginia Graham

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Andrew Bogut

Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity.

Santosh Kalwar

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

T.F. Hodge

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Savage Landor

In my friend, I find a second self.

Isabel Norton