There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them -- so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine the Great

Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

Proverb

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Benjamin Franklin

I love men who make me laugh.

Nastassja Kinski

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.

Sheldon Adelson

From where it came and to where it goes, I wish I knew, like the river knows.

Kellie Elmore

Violence is my last option.

Chuck Norris

DOG: A kind of additional or subsidiary Diety designed to catch the overflow or surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

Stephen King