The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Peter De Vries

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries

In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Desmond Tutu

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

William Shakespeare

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Joel Osteen

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Sir Thomas Beecham

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Lee Iacocca

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Taisen Deshimaru