I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Queen Victoria

Ego is recessive in wisdom.

Toba Beta

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Kahlil Gibran, "Anthem of Humani

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Otto von Bismarck

All authority belongs to the people

Thomas Jefferson

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.

Carl Sandburg

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.

Kate Walsh

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

H. L. Mencken

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton