The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs.

Stephen Richards

Freedom can occur only through education.

Friedrich Schiller

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Lena Dunham

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Rick Pitino

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Ambroise Valery

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles Monroe Schulz

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

Denise Mina

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Marcia Gay Harden

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Francis Quarles