Claudius

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“فليست العلمانية إنكاراً للأديان، وإنما هي إنكار لدور رجال الدين - بصفتهم رجال دين - في إدارة سياسة الدولة أو توجيهها”
― فرج فودة, الوفد والمستقبل