The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

Source Unknown

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause... A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding; when it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Eric Hoffer, Thoughts on the Nat

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.

Meryl Streep

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

James Arthur Baldwin

I love acting. Oh, God, I love it. But all this fame and all this bullshit attention. I'm not supernatural. I've done nothing extremely special to deserve the position. It happens every couple of years, and it's happened to hundreds of people before me.

Heath Ledger

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Mark Twain

He is great enough that is his own master.

Joseph Hall

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. Dr. Martin Luther King

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

Margaret Sackville

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

Ludwig Quidde