Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.

Life is pure flame.

Sir Thomas Browne

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Marvin S. Levin

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

Richard De Bury

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

My mother dreamed dreams for Joaquin and for me long before we could dream them for ourselves.

Julian Castro

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

Ezra Pound

Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

Source Unknown

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

James Huneker

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Kahlil Gibran

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.

Alanis Morissette