Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Rufus Choate

You told me, I remember, glory, builtOn selfish principles, is shame and guilt; The deeds that men admire as half divine, Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. Strange doctrine this! that without scruple tearsThe laurel that the very lightning spares; Brings down the warriorhttp://www.ccel.org/c/cowper/works/table-talk.htm

William Cowper, Table Talk

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Jane Pauley

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

William J. Clinton

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

Stephen Richards

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Some people are like that - always searching fro something better, never satisfied.,Makes you wonder if they ever get a good night's sleep. They must toss and turn, dreaming about a softer mattress or a plumper pillow.

Farahad Zama

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

Mireille Enos