It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Saul Bellow

Truth does not contradict truth.

Elizer Zvi Zweifel

The real hero is always a hero by mistake he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

You are a surprise for me./ Every moment./ You are unpredictable in your love./ You cannot be controlled by my love.

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

Lillian Hellman

Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.

Marcus Garvey

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face

William Shakespeare

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot

What you feel inside reflects on your face. So be happy and positive all the time.

Sridevi

There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.

Yvon Chouinard

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

David Satcher

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter