The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Bruce Lee
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Lord Chesterfield
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
William Shenstone
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive, less and less fired up with enthusiasm, in many spheres.
Peter Hammill
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Liv Tyler
Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Kevin Spacey
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
Travis Barker
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.
Debbie Stabenow
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
John Cusack
Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
Rabindranath Tagore
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
Dolly Parton
Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Marilyn French
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
Robert Browning
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
Brigitte Bardot
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett
Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Jefferson
If someone commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him. Do not complain of others. Refrain from reprimanding them, and if you wish to give admonition or advice, let it be offered in such a way that it will not burden the bearer
Abdu'l-Baha
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
Philippe Perrin
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
Billy Ray Cyrus
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Suze Orman
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
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