It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

B. C. Forbes

People must help one another it is nature's law.

Jean de La Fontaine

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

George Lucas

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

Luciano Pavarotti

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief: He robs himself that spends a bootless grief

William Shakespeare

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.

Miguel de Unamuno

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk