Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Mark Twain

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

Stephen Harper

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel.

John Grierson

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Paulo Coelho

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Brit Hume

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Theresa

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.

Andy Mulcahy

The stone age came to an end not for lack of stones. And the oil age will come to an end not for lack of oil.

Sheikh Yamani

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Abraham Lincoln