Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
Paul Auster
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
I think you can learn from history.
Chuck Norris
If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
Steven Wright
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Gideon Lightwood said he was at the Institute in Madrid. What on earth was he doing there?''Faffing about, most likely', said Will.
Cassandra Clare
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness
Thomas Jefferson
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins
A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
It should be noted that when he seizes a state the new ruler ought to determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He should inflict them once and for all, and not have to renew them every day.
Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
Alex Chiu
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
Paul Newman
I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.
Fred Durst
It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
Jonah Lomu
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them
George Eliot
Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
Carey Mulligan
My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.
Steve Maraboli
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison
A man like that thinks that fear can win loyalty. Plenty of masters with a lash who can testify it works. Don't win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
Orson Scott Card
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