When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahlil Gibran

Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.

Steve Maraboli

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Ron Paul

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Nigel Farage

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Miguel de Cervantes

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.

Eugene Forsey

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

Anna Quindlen

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

Eric Alterman

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Sienna Miller

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson