What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

HsuehDou

I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! It reached my very soul

Stephen Grellet, Memoirs of the

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Samuel Johnson

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

Vincent Van Gogh

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

George Eliot

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Dean Inge

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Karl Lagerfeld

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale Turner

Once in Persia reigned a kingWho upon his signet ringGraved a maxim true and wise,Which he held before the eyesGave him counsel at a glanceFit for every change and chance.Solemn words, and these are they:Even this shall pass away.

Theodore Tilton, The King's Ring

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

Betty White