A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Helen Rowland on marriage
I\'m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT\'s All A Miracle. Arthur Rubinstein on life
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Dagobert D. Runes on truth
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart. Salman Rushdie on exploration
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. Ruskin on success
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. John Ruskin on art
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin on endurance
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility. John Ruskin on humility
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin on pride
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. John Ruskin on travel
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world...To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. John Ruskin on vision
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. Rosalind Russel on success
Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell on change
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Bertrand Russell on convention
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Bertrand Russell on freedom
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell on happiness
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell on happiness
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell on happiness
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell on ideals
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. Bertrand Russell on individuality