There is something human beings can do. The adrenaline rush, we call it. Fear, tremendous love. When people kill themselves, commit suicide over love, that kind of passion will move mountains.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Benjamin Disraeli

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Rick Hansen

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Samuel Johnson

Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Bono

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Elizabeth Gilbert

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Lisa Bonet

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both; and I am sure it promotes their happin

Thomas Jefferson