Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Sophocles

To be successful, you need to do two things:1. Condition your hair,2. Do the same with your mind.

Manhardeep Singh Ahluwalia

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

Chin-Ning Chu

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Ethel Merman

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

Jimmy Smits

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Hope springs forever.

J.K. Rowling

Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford

Samuel Johnson

The body is most fully developed [at] from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

Aristotle

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Yiannis Stournaras