Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
Meister Eckhart

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T. S. Eliot

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. Eliot

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Patrick Henry

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
George Orwell

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
George Orwell

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
P. J. O'Rourke

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch

We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats

You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.
John Keats