We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Oscar Wilde

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Jean Baudrillard

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

Orison Swett Marden

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

A Jewish beggar is not impossible, perhaps; such a thing may exist, but there are few men that can say they have seen that spectacle.

Mark Twain

A light here required a shadow there.

Virginia Woolf

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Elbert Hubbard

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Auguste Rodin

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

Albert Einstein

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

George Orwell

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Confucius