Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?

William Cowper

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Thomas Sowell

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Nick Clegg

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

J.K. Rowling

Life is too precious to worry about what could or will happen. Life is..what you make it

E'yen A. Gardner

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

Paulo Coelho

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

Vince Cable

I love what I do and I love the fans.

George Eads

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

Zac Efron

Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck.

Michael Reagan