The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

From a commercial point of view if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

I never did anything by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it and has a hard time and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

I think you can expect Sony in the case of PSP specifically to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment and take it to a brand new level.

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.