The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Blaise Pascal

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

Karl Kraus

Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way.

Virginia Woolf

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

John Dryden

It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

Bobby McFerrin

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

Thornton Wilder, attributed

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caleb Carr

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

Yulia Tymoshenko

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry