Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
Jane Austen

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
George Eliot

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Chuck Palahniuk

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Chuck Palahniuk

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Golda Meir

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
Morihei Ueshiba

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
Elvis Presley

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.
Woodrow Wilson

Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt.
Woodrow Wilson

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow Wilson

Interest does not tie nations together; it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.
Woodrow Wilson