Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

John Lennon

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

Denzel Washington

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

Paul J. Meyer

I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.

P.C. Cast

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Alexander McCall Smith

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

How short life is for fools.

Orson Scott Card

History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

Henry David Thoreau

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

Henry L. Doherty

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Jack Nicholson