"Life is problems. Living is solving problems."
— Raymond E. Feist

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
— Winston S. Churchill

"A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults"
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing."
— Sarah Vowell

"What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?"
— Anthony Trollope

"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."
— Mario Puzo

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
— Winston S. Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility. "
— Winston S. Churchill

"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

"History is written by the victors."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
— Oscar Wilde

"it's just business nothing personal..."
— Mario Puzo

"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
— Oscar Wilde

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
— Abraham Lincoln

""Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone"
— Mario Puzo

"Wise? No, I simply learned to think.
- Eragon"
— Christopher Paolini (Eldest)

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
— Oscar Wilde

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

"The Best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"
— Christopher Paolini

"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
— Theodore Roosevelt

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
— Oscar Wilde

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
— Oscar Wilde

"Still I Rise


You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."
— Maya Angelou

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
— Bram Stoker

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
— Voltaire

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
— Abraham Lincoln

"What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.'"
— Søren Kierkegaard (Either - Or)

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Oscar Wilde

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more."
— George Gordon Byron

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

"When love is not madness it is not love."
— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

"And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stolen out of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
— William Shakespeare (Richard III)

""Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.""
— Bram Stoker

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a bottle)

"God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
— Voltaire

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to
succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
"
— Abraham Lincoln

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)