The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

When You learn, TEACH. When you get, GIVE.

Maya Angelou

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

Jack Kingston

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Scottish Proverb

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Cassandra Clare

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Albert Einstein

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

Marc Chagall

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Cassandra Clare