I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Jane Austen

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

Monica Lewinsky

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Miranda Lambert

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.

Marcelene Cox

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar

Henry David Thoreau

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Betty Smith