Habit is given to us from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

I loved you: love perhaps has not yet faded entirely from my soul.

Making this uninteresting world interesting.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

We will either find a way, or make one.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

-- Virginia Woolf

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood... teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The beautiful is always strange.

-- Charles Baudelaire

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

-- Mark Twain