We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.

Earl Wilson

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Stanley Hauerwas

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Joseph Addison

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

Robert Benchley

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

David Gemmell

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

American Indian Proverb, Maricop

We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.

Tim Berners-Lee

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

Joe Jonas

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Henry David Thoreau

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.

Samuel Butler

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Don Marquis