Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

Natalie Coughlin

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

William Pitt

Let me dream only with my heart, Love first, and after see: Know thy diviner counterpart Before I kneel to thee. So in thy motions all expressed Thy angel I may view: I shall not on thy beauty rest, But Beauty's ray in you.

George William Russell

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Brook

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

Phil Ochs

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.

Anon.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Mao Zedong

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Francis Darwin