It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Havelock Ellis

Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as if Magnus seemed to be paying attention to what Will was doing, and he'd honestly never imagined two people could get themselves into a position like that, much less make it look artistic.

Cassandra Clare

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sir Philip Sidney

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

Here is the shadow of truth, for only the shadow is true.

Robert Penn Warren

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Fern Naito

Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

Lucille Ball

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow