The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.