Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.
—Sarah Ban Breathnach (American Self-help Author)
Laughter and levity habituate a man to lewdness.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.
—Terence (Roman Comic Dramatist)
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
—Jacques Barzun (American Cultural Historian)
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.
—Billy Graham (American Baptist Religious Leader)
What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived.
—Irving Kristol (American Political Writer)
What you are will show in what you do.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
—Denis Waitley (American Motivational Speaker)
There is a mean in everything.—Even virtue itself hath its stated limits, which, not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
—Henry Ward Beecher (American Protestant Clergyman)
If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
—Pietro Aretino (Italian Author)
Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
—John Ruskin (English Art Critic)