• Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
    • Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
  • The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
    • Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
  • Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
    • Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
  • All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    • Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
    • Edith Wharton
  • Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
    • Isaac Asimov
  • Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
    • Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation. Knowing everything means that you do not have to think and that is very dangerous.
    • Garth Nix -- Lady Friday
  • The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
    • Confucius
  • Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
    • Confucius
  • Study the past if you wish to predict the future.
    • Confucius
  • It is nothing to die. It's a horrible thing to never have lived.
    • Victor Hugo
  • The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
    • Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
  • The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible".
    • Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Two men looked from prison bars; one saw mud, the other stars.
    • Unknown
  • Life is not simply holding a good hand, it is playing a bad one well.
    • Danish Proverb
  • Just as a straight line is the shortest distance between two places, a shortcut is the longest distance.
    • Unknown
  • To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    • Sun Tzu -- The Art of War
  • Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
    • Sun Tzu -- The Art of War
  • People don't care how much you know before they know how much you care.
    • John C. Maxwell -- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
  • Diversity without unity is like dumping a whole lot of ingredients into a bowl and calling it a cake.
    • Unknown
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    • Winston Churchill
  • For Beatrice - When we met, you were pretty and I was lonely. Now I am pretty lonely.
    • Lemony Snicket -- A Series of Unfortunate Events