Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.

Our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Pain with the thousand teeth.

Sir William Watson

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Ray Davies

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Mariel Hemingway

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Horace

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler (London)

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

Gianni Versace

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

Jeanne Calment

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Alexander the Great