Today’s Quote

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude --- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.