He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-Maya Angelou
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
-Paulo Coelho
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore, one should learn contentment.
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William J. Bennett
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
-Martha Graham
If an evil man comes and creates a disturbance, you should hold your peace. You must not angrily upbraid his; then he who has come to curse you will merely harm himself.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with the heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
-Rumi
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
-Karl Marx