To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

?Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Jodi Picoult

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity

Helen Schucman

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Samuel Johnson

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

Thomas Carlyle

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain, Following the Equato

you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.

Jodi Picoult

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Harry S Truman

They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

Francis Ford Coppola

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Youssou N'Dour