Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.

Orlando Bloom

the reverse side of love is unbearable loss.

Susan Abulhawa

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

Jean Rostand

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

Billy Baldwin

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.

Michael Crichton

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope

Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?

Wayne Gerard Trotman