When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Charles The Bold

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Ayrton Senna

So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

Vinny Guadagnino

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos

Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? ---That's what I said.

Walter de la Mare

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

Ai Weiwei

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Richard Cobden

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

Michael D. Higgins