“Since we are denied a long life, let us leave behind something to show that we have lived.”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Have a real reserve with almost everyone and have a seemingly reserve with almost nobody.”— Lord Chesterfield, amazon.com
“Tell me with whom you walk with and I will tell you who you are.”— Spanish proverb, huffingtonpost.com
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses.”— Jeremiah 12:5, amazon.com
“Nil actum reputans, si quid. (Nothing has been done if anything remains to be done.)”— Lucan, amazon.com
“The surge his body made when he considered living longer–even though it would bring him back to the same place–contemplating death.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Money is not the good we should seek because it is merely useful for some other end.”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“None holds more lessons, especially for youth: How to use a difficult childhood. How to seize eagerly on all opportunities, physical, moral, and intellectual. How to dare greatly, to reinforce success, and to put the inevitable failures behind you. And how, while pursuing vaulting ambition with ener…”— Boris Johnson, amazon.com
“Nature is merciful and does not try her children, man or beast, beyond their compass. It is only when the cruelty of man intervenes that hellish torments appear. For the rest, live dangerously, take things as they come. Fear naught, all will be well.”— Boris Johnson, amazon.com
“When Winston was born lots of fairies swooped down on his cradle with gifts–imagination, eloquence, industry, ability–and then came a fairy who said 'No one person has a right to so many gifts,' picked him up and gave him such a shake and twist that with all these gifts he was denied judgment and wi…”— Stanley Baldwin, Boris Johnson, amazon.com
“The hard decisions are not the ones you make in the heat of battle. Far hard to make are those involved in speaking your minds about some hare-brained scheme, which proposes to commit troops to action under conditions where failure is almost certain, and the only results will be the needless sacrifi…”— Gen. Matthew Ridgway, amazon.com
“His life was very much his own, but now it had more gravity and perhaps even a compass.”— John Hay, amazon.com
“Michael Jackson asked David Geffen to manage him: 'Do you wash windows?' 'No.' 'Well I don't manage.'”— Michael Jackson, David Geffen, Travis Smiley, amazon.com