Your ability to see beauty and possibility is proportionate to the level at which you embrace gratitude.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

Kresley Cole

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Louisa May Alcott

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

Source Unknown

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

James Larkin

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo

Publicity is the life of this culture -- in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive -- and at the same time publicity is its dream.

John Berger, Ways of Seeing, ch.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Steve Cauthen

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

James P. Hoffa

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibber

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

Steven Wright

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

Robert Griffin III