When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Michelle Obama

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Madame Swetchine

I think the Spirit, is the one thing we have to rely on. It has been handed to us as a live and precious coal. And each generation has to make that decision whether they want to blow on that coal to keep it alive or throw it away... Our language, our histories and culture are like a big ceremonial fire that's been kicked and stomped and scattered...Out in the darkness we can see those coals glowing. But our generation, whether in tribal government or wherever we find ourselves--Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole--are coal gatherers. We bring the coals back, assemble them and breathe on them again, so we can spark a flame around which we might warm ourselves.

Gary White Deer

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can. The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

Bill Murray

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Vanessa Marcil

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

Anon., various versions of this

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold

Don't let yourself be destroyed by a force that was placed in our hearts in order to make everything better.

Paulo Coelho

There once was a sculptor called PhidiasWho had a distaste for the hideous.So he sculpt AphroditeWithout any nightieWhich shocked the ultra-fastidious.

Anon.

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

Jonathan Swift

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Doug Horton

The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world... you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live

Donald Tsang