And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket, " Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

We are patriots in my family, we are believers in America, we're believers in democracy.