A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.

Les Brown

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Robert Browning

You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.

Marguerite Moreau

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Henry David Thoreau

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

Robertson Davies

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

Richard Dawkins

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Honore de Balzac

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Edward Dahlberg

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Ambrose Bierce

Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Simone Elkeles

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

Mark Twain