Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Penser, c'est réapprendre ? voir, ? être attentif, c'est diriger sa conscience, c'est faire de chaque idée et de chaque image, ? la façon de Proust, un lieu privilégié

Albert Camus

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Herodotus

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

Ben Nicholson

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

George Edward Woodberry

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public parks, whether it be in the workplace, or even our schools.

Jon Porter

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Nora Ephron

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

W. H. Auden

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Jean Jacques Rousseau