A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love, love recompenses the adorers.
Kahlil Gibran
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age when the eager passions of youth are cooled and the infirmities of age not yet begun, as we see that the shadows which are at morning and evening so large almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something or that you were forced to but actually whatever you do you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W. Clement Stone
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service, we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
He taught me how to play the game. He's the coach I'm the player ... We don't think we're going to have any problems.
Kobe Bryant
Everything being a constant carnival there is no carnival left.
Victor Hugo
