We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th

There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.

Debi Mazar

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Michael Phelps

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

Denise McCluggage

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.

William Wordsworth

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Don Shula

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Jeanne Moreau

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

Emma Watson

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

George Herbert