The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

Gustav Mahler

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.

Cardinal De Retz

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Everyone knows that if you've got a brother, you're going to fight.

Liam Gallagher

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike, "Christian Science

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

John Green

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

William Hazlitt

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Ella Higginson

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Sir Edwin Arnold

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

Leonard Ravenhill

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

John Edgar Wideman