The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Steven Wright

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Herman Hesse

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Colin Powell

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

James Truslow Adams

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Conrad Black

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.

Sergei Lukyanenko

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Charles Sumner

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.

Jim DeMint

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

James Russell Lowell

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

Arthur Christopher Benson

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

Mitch Albom