What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

Paulo Coelho

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

Samantha Morton

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

Peter M. Senge

He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Rollo May

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.

John Keats