We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Horace

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Princess of Wales Diana

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Michel Foucault

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of San

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Hillary Clinton

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

Eric Jerome Dickey

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

Jocelyn Soriano

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Bill Gates

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

Henry Reed

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson