When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain,

Adam Lindsay Gordon

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

Lytton Strachey

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

Cat Stevens

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Joy Baluch

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Prince

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

Kristin Cavallari

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun, when you do go to 'Edwin Drood,' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

Rupert Holmes