Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Warren Harding, at the 1916 Repu

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

Source Unknown

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

Charlie Sheen

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Tyra Banks

Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.

Immanuel Kant

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

John Stuart Mill

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

Denis Waitley

I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.

Laura Marling

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

Tobey Maguire

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Norman Macewan