Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

Barbara Jordan

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Ernest Renan

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

George MacDonald

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Michael Sheen

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Kanye West

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Ess

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

Elizabeth Hurley

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting

Matt Damon

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

Michel de Montaigne