I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren G. Bennis

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.

Daniel Webster

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Eric Hoffer

Chase away sorrow by living

Melissa Marr

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Christina Westover

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Steven Spielberg

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...

J.K. Rowling

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

Herbert Read

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

Madeleine Albright