Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

Source Unknown

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Katherine Mansfield

At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.

J.K. Rowling

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Paulo Coelho

All you need is love.

John Lennon

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Ralph Fiennes

My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.

Neneh Cherry

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Virginia Woolf

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.

Mitch Daniels

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.

Josh Billings

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius