When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Keith Thibodeaux

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Lao Tzu

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it come as sincerely from the author's soul

Aldous Huxley

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

Marlon Wayans

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

Denis Diderot

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do

Friedrich Nietzsche