Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Gustav Jung
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Jude Law
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.
Stephen King
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.
Madeleine Albright
Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
Malcolm Mclaren
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.
Josh Hartnett
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.
William Shakespeare
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin
You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
J.K. Rowling
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle
Mahatma Gandhi
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Freeman Dyson
The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
I wasn't disappointed. My expectations had been met.
John Green
I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.
Cory Monteith
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.
Kiefer Sutherland
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.
Bette Davis
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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