Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle.

George Eliot

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

Simon Greenleaf

I have been able to travel all over the country and see many places that I probably never would have visited. I have also participated in many charity events for worthy causes.

Rob Mariano

Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Proverb

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.

Edward Said

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.

Steve Maraboli

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Baruch

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

G. W. Follin

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.

John Thune

Going after what I believe in.

Paulo Coelho

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospital treatment, you simply can't leave, you are in effect a captive.

Rowan D. Williams