The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.

Confucius

At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

Jeffrey Archer

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Frederick Pollock

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Kahlil Gibran

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind, thoughts of the spirit? Or hunted dawn from the bow of a canoe? These weren't the things that drove society, but she felt they shouldn't be treated as unimportant. They made living worthwhile.

Nicholas Sparks

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.

Paul William "Bear" Bryant

Y cada vez, después de la pasión satisfecha y del amor renovado nos dormimos muy juntos sin importarnos dónde empieza uno ni termina el otro, ni de quién son estas manos o estos pies, en tan perfecta complicidad que nos encontramos en los sueños y al otro día no sabemos quién soñó a quién, y cuando uno se mueve entre las sábanas el otro se acomoda en los ángulos y curvas, y cuando uno suspira el otro suspira y cuando uno despierta el otro despierta también.

Isabel Allende

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image, 1

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Bill Nye