The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Franz Grillparzer

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Eckhart Tolle

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Jeff Davidson

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

George Eliot

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

C.S. Lewis, Lilies that Fester

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Pope John Paul II

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Gustave Flaubert

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

Kelly Miller

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

George Eliot

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln