True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter ... or at least, most minds are...

J.K. Rowling

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Baltasar Gracian

?'If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

Very few people can afford to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

J. M. Barrie

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Angela Carter

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

Blaise Pascal

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P. J. O'Rourke

Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.

Yasunari Kawabata

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre