The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

Rachel Naomi Remen

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

Lord Greville

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Philip Emeagwali

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

Katie Holmes

The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.

Bible

The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

Lindsey Graham

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Emeli Sande

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Elbert Hubbard

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.

Christopher Marlowe