Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.
-Megan McCafferty
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Mother, father and teacher are best guides of a person; that person is really lucky whose parents are virtuous as they will always guide him to the right way and always think good for him.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
-George Bernard Shaw
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau