In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Walt Whitman

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

John Wooden

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

[from ]In those days also people loved, envied, sought truth and virtue, and where carried away by passions; and there was the same complex mental and moral life among the upper classes, where were in some instances even more refined than now. If we have come to believe in the perversity and coarse violence of that period, that is only because the traditions, memoirs, stories, and novels that have been handed to us, record for the most part exceptional cases of violence and brutality. To suppose that the predominant characteristic of that period was turbulence, is as unjust as it would before a man, seeing nothing but the tops of trees beyond a hill, to conclude that there was nothing to be found in that locality but trees.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved...

George Sand, Letter to Lina Cala

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Julius Erving

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Hans Christian Andersen

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

Ann Coulter

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Aristotle

So I started out for God knows where.I guess I'll know when I get there.

Tom Petty

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nevell Bovee