True readers... are ready to go through a whole volume, if there be but hope of finding in it a single genuine thought or the mere suggestion even of a truth which has some fresh application to life.

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

Walter Savage Landor

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

Alain de Botton

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Manny Pacquiao

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

Benjamin Franklin

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Alice Walker, The Temple of My F

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Jose Marti

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Ronald Reagan

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

Baroness Emmuska Orczy