Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Augustine Birrell

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Loretta Young

He who has learnt to control his tongue has attained self-control in a great measure. When such a person speaks he will be heard with respect and attention. His words will be remembered, for they will be good and true. When one who is established in truth prays with a pure heart, then things he really needs come to him when they are really needed: he does not have to run after them. The man firmly established in truth gets the fruit of his actions without apparently doing anything. God, the source of all truth, supplies his needs and looks after his welfare.

B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga

These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

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

Herodotus

We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Margot Kidder

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead androtten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich von Schiller

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Mireille Enos

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art.

George Santayana