Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
—Agatha Christie (British Novelist)
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
—Louis Brandeis (American Jurist)
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
—Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome, Stoic Philosopher)
Justice delayed is justice denied.
—William Ewart Gladstone (English Liberal Statesman)
Not alone for that which is mine will I rejoice, but for that which has been withheld, which was coveted and longed for but denied, for I am what I am for having bad to rise superior to the need.
—Muriel Strode (American Author, Businesswoman)
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
—William Cowper (English Anglican Poet)
The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony.
—Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand (French Writer, Statesman)
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)
Love doesn’t mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.
—Jean Vanier (French-Canadian Humanitarian)
I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
—Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali Poet, Polymath)
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
—Kahlil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)