It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

Humphry Davy

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Kenneth L. Pike

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.(translated 1951)

Emile Durkheim, Suicide, bk. 2,

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Billy Corgan

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Anthony Robbins

and talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.

Jane Austen

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

Antonio Porchia

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

Mark Twain

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

Cecilia Bartoli

Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That's a tradition I miss.

Maria Sharapova