When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

V. S. Naipaul

Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Source Unknown

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bryan Adams

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Adam Rickitt

Good design doesn't date.

Harry Seidler

Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

Iain Duncan Smith

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Bertrand Russell

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Lord Chesterfield

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero