All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

Source Unknown

After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.

Michel de Montaigne

A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.

George Eliot

We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

David R. Hawkins

Men do not fail they give up trying.

Elihu Root

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

Nick Hornby

Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?

Bernard Berenson

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

Arthur Calwell

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

Joe Baca

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't

Ernest Rutherford