True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
– Mary Wollstonecraft

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
– John Quincy Adams

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
– Frederick William Faber

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
– Don Herold

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
– Karl Barth

Every time you win, you’re reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
– George E. Allen

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
– Carl Rogers

Obscurity in writing is commonly a proof of darkness in the mind; the greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
– John Wilkins

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
– Gian Carlo Menotti

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
– Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
– Harold Bloom

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.
– Madeleine Albright

It must be hard to be a model, because you’d want to be like the photograph of you, and you can’t ever look that way.
– Andy Warhol

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.
– Gail Godwin

There is a point where you aren’t as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends. It doesn’t happen for everyone–but it did for Mom and me.
– Jamie Lee Curtis

Most ball games are lost, not won.
– Casey Stengel

Patience is also a form of action.
– Auguste Rodin

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
– Martin Heidegger

Little deeds of kindness,|little words of love,|make our earth an Eden,|like the heaven above.
– Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney

I have condemned Khomeini’s fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and as an assault on Islam as we know it in the era of apostasy. I believe that the wrong done by Khomeini towards Islam and the Muslims is no less than that done by the author himself. As regards freedom of expression, I have said that it must be considered sacred and that thought can only be corrected by counter-thought. During the debate, I supported the boycott of the book as a means of maintaining social peace, granted that such a decision would not be used as a pretext to constrain thought.
– Naguib Mahfouz

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
– Adam Smith

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
– Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.
– Sathya Sai Baba

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
– Pope John XXIII

As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
– Joan Baez

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
– James F. Byrnes

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
– Andy Warhol

Our mistakes from the past are just that: mistakes. And they were necessary to make in order to become the wiser person we became.
– Bill Maher

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you don’t take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
– Roberto Goizueta

Sow an act…reap a habit; Sow a habit…reap a character; Sow a character…reap a destiny.
– George Boardman

Do what you fear most and you control fear.
– Tom Hopkins

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than “politicians” think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas… that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.
– Michel Foucault

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
– Philip K. Dick

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
– Han Suyin

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
– Babe Ruth

I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.
– Ted Turner

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them
– Gail Godwin

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way, but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.
– William Glasser

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
– Alberto Giacometti

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
– Vita Sackville-West

I couldn’t wait for success… so I went ahead without it.
– Jonathan Winters

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
– Mort Walker

How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
– Charles G. Dawes

No one knows what they’ll do in a moment of crisis and hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.
– Joan Baez

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
– Louise Hay

Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
– Harold Macmillan

There are five tests of the evidence of education — correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue; refined and gentle manners, the result of fixed habits of thought and action; sound standards of appreciation of beauty and of worth, and a character based on those standards; power and habit of reflection; efficiency or the power to do.
– Nicholas Murray Butler

Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
– Carl Rogers

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don’t despise it. But it can’t quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
– Georges Bernanos

People go through four stages before any revolutionary development:|1. It’s nonsense, don’t waste my time.|2. It’s interesting, but not important.|3. I always said it was a good idea.|4. I thought of it first.
– Arthur C. Clarke

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
– Harold Macmillan