You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane;The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.

Darshan Singh

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

Larry David

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Barack Obama

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.

H. Rider Haggard

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Terry Pratchett

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Antisthenes

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

Edith Hamilton

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Francis H. Bradley

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen