We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Robert Collier

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

Aristotle

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.

George Washington

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Junius

this is a book about something

C.S. Lewis

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann von Goethe

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Sydney Smith

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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The loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable - that one false step involves in her endless ruin - that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful - and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behavior towards the undeserving of the opposite sex.

Jane Austen