The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.

Marshal Ferdinand Foch

He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.

James Tyler Kent

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

Ann Brashares

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Blaise Pascal

So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

Lady Gaga

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Guy Kawasaki

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.

Christopher Hitchens

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

Bodenstedt

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

Garrison Keillor