Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Calvin Coolidge

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.

Cassandra Clare

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

Jack Schmitt

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Sir Winston Churchill

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

Meister Eckhart

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship

Friedrich Nietzsche