Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Success is the ability to rise above principle.

Gerald Barzan

They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business.

Source Unknown

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H Comins

for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

Jane Austen

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

If other people want to talk about my future I can't control that.

Steven Gerrard

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician.

Blythe Danner

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Amelia Barr

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Colin Powell

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts