Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Baltasar Gracian

I desire Virtue, though I love her not-I have no faith in her when she is got:I fear that she will bind and make me slaveAnd send me songless to the sullen grave.

Anna Wickham, SelfAnalysis in Co

Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.

H. A. Hopf

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

Soren Kierkegaard

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

Naya Rivera

But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

Stefan Zweig

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.

Mia Hamm

Form follows beauty.

Oscar Niemeyer

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

Dolph Lundgren