So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.