Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Ouida

In wine there is truth

Roman Proverb

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

Huston Smith

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coco Chanel

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

Osho

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Markus Zusak

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

R. A. Torrey

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Voltaire

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joseph Joubert

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

Frank Black

Historically and politically, the petit-bourgeois is the key to the century. The bourgeois and proletariat classes have become abstractions: the petite-bourgeoisie, in contrast, is everywhere, you can see it everywhere, even in the areas of the bourgeois and the proletariat, what's left of them.

Roland Barthes