Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

-- Aristotle, Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

-- Mother Teresa, Brida

I have been at war with parts of myself for so long

-- Mohadesa Najumi, Celine

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

-- William James, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Wealth is a by-product of Cosmic Ordering.

-- Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

-- George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

-- B.F. Skinner, The Pleasures of Life

Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.

-- Stephanie Morales, Immortalis: The Guardian

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

-- Amit Ray, The Captive Part II / The Power

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

-- Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

-- Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

-- J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

Love outweighs the liabilities.

-- Martha Cecilia, Apoy sa Malamig na Puso

90% of the game is half mental.

-- Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

Literature is light.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Steppenwolf

May you will have the grace to complete the task.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

-- Doug Coupland, Human Detritus

Religiousity is unself glory not purity

-- indonesia123, El Juego: Nosotros

Seconds feel like centuries when I am not in your presence.

-- A. H. Septimius, The Vestige