They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Vicki Baum

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.

Jean Anouilh

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Maria Montessori

A lack of clarity is food for failure.

Steve Maraboli

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience

Oscar Wilde

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Leonardo Sciascia

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Theodore Rubin

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

John Enoch Powell

Who cares what people say about me? I am right on the ball. And I don't think one should take oneself too seriously. Be like the laughing Buddha, I always say, smile through life! It will immediately look better!

Mallika Sherawat

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Herb Ritts

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Margaret Thatcher