Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.

Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a complete thing, I have to recall things gone far, gone deep, sunk into this life or that and become part of it; dreams, too, things surrounding me, and the inmates, those old half-articulate ghosts who keep up their hauntings by day and night... shadows of people one might have been; unborn selves.

Virginia Woolf

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

Shaun White

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Remy de Gourmont

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoker

Kate Moss

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Beilby Porteus

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

Brian Tracy

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Chuck Yeager

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tacitus