The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

Ronald Reagan

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Roger Milla

Sure my rose-colored glasses don't let me see the world for what it is NOW but what they allow is the chance to see what the world would look like if people cared enough to plant more roses

Matthew Goldfinger

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

Evan Bayh

A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.

John K. Hutchens

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Lord Longford

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Soren Kierkegaard, The Present A

Imitation is suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William Wycherley

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison