All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions.

Steve Maraboli

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Trisha Yearwood

The traveler has reached the end of the journey! In the freedom of the infinite he is free from all sorrows, the fetters that bound him are thrown away, and the burning fever of life is no more.

Dhammapada

Ever since the Reformation, there's a sense in which the road to atheism was paved not with science, but with religious intentions.

Jonathan Miller

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Haruki Murakami

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Marcus Aurelius

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the are funny but because your own is funny.

Stephen King

Don't start with a class. Start with a protocol.

Dave Abrahams

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

W. Winwood Reade

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

John D. MacDonald