The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing;

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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

James Baldwin

Only work half a day. It doesn't matter which half you work -- the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours.

Kemmons Wilson

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

George Carlin

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

Jean de La Fontaine

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

Sally Ride

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Madeleine Albright

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Michael Scheuer

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt

If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven.

Source Unknown

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

George Bernard Shaw

The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

Sydney J. Harris