It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Watts

And if we do not stand now, then when will a stand be taken against evil?

Bodie Thoene

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Paul Ryan

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

Amy Sedaris

Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu:Nothing is in the understanding, which was not first perceived by some of the senses.

John Locke, attributed, exact so

I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Imelda Marcos

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Ed Markey

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

Kenny Chesney

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

Ravindra Shukla

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

Eric Clapton

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins