Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

Joel Osteen

You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand

The house appointed for all the living.

Bible

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Geoffrey Hickson

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Sydney J. Harris

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

Scott Adams

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Albert Schweitzer