I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays:

If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Bill Hybels

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Richard M. Nixon

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Annie Lennox

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

Paul Cezanne

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Louis C. K.

First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.

Lilith Saintcrow

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

W. Somerset Maugham

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering

Minna Antrim

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

George Bancroft

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Kahlil Gibran