If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

Oscar de la Renta

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Desmond Tutu

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

Blaise Pascal

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something; Gifted people ARE that something.

Steve Maraboli

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Isaac Asimov

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it's just compounding the felony.

Robert Benchley

You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high.

Paulo Coelho

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Marilyn Manson

Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the g

Albert Einstein

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

David Cameron