It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

William Blake

Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.

Hannah Arendt

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

J.K. Rowling

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

Jeremy Taylor

I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable

George Bernard Shaw

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

Yoko Ono

Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.

Stephen Richards

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.

Moasi

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Lord Chesterfield