He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

So then I thought, I'd like you to have something to remember me by, you know, if you ever meet some veela when you're off doing whatever you're doing.'I think dating opportunities are going to be pretty thin on the ground, to be honest.'There's a silver lining I've been looking for,' she whispered, and then she was kissing him as she never kissed him before, and Harry was kissing her back, and it was a blissful oblivion, better than firewhiskey; she was the only real thing in the world, Ginny, the feel of her, one hand on her back, the other in her long sweet-smelling hair...

J.K. Rowling

Acting is happy agony.

Sir Alec Guinness

Houston, it looks like we got us a Dragon by the tail.

Don Pettit

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

Source Unknown

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously, because my mom and my dad get along so well.

Jenna Bush

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.

Norman Vincent Peale

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Friedrich von Schiller

To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Paul Goodman

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

William Dean Howells

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

Alain Prost

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert