Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When did swearing become so easy? You still would never swear in front of your parents or most adults, but when you're with your friends it's like every fifth word. Why couldn't learning Spanish be that easy?

Charles Benoit

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

John Wooden

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.

Paulo Coelho

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

Josie Maran

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Havelock Ellis

But truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

Judith Anderson

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

Fannie Hurst

All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield