Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

William Shakespeare

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Irving Layton

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Zig Ziglar

...you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

Natsuki Takaya

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

Samuel Johnson

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Ben Stein

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Bob Dylan

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A Bartlett Giamatti

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.

Vivienne Westwood

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

John Mayer

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Thomas Huxley

Only law can give us freedom.

Johann von Goethe