I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway

To be what no one ever was,To be what everyone has been:Freedom is the mean of thoseExtremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Bernard Baruch

Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful.

Source Unknown

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

Which is more real, when you face reality, or when reality faces you?

Anthony Liccione

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

He full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

Torquato Tasso

Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound, Young voices sing; Wreathe every door with snow-white voices round, For lo! 't is Spring! Winter has passed with its sad funeral train, And Love revives again.

Lewis Morris (poet)

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt

The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.

Ralph Winter, Behind the Screen