I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
Rose Kennedy
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac
Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
Charles Lindbergh
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
John Paul Jones
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
Baltasar Gracian
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Robert Quillen
