But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Benjamin Disraeli

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Doug Horton

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

Christopher Hitchens

He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.

Heather Anastasiu

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Sigmund Freud

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

John Ruskin

There is no mystery attached to the fact that, in this new era in human history, when for the first time large numbers of people can live unconstrained lives involving high levels of choice, there is a concurrent explosion in depression rates. The burden of responsibility for making innumerable choices can result in a person's becoming psychologically tyrannized by them.

Gregg D. Jacobs, The Ancestral M

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

Sheldon Kopp

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

Earl Nightingale

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

Princess Diana talking to Prince William about the loss of her title Her Royal Highness: She turned to William in her distress. She (Princess Diana) told me how he had sat with her one night when she was upset over the loss of HRH, put his arms around her and said: Don't worry, Mummy. I will give it back to you one day when I am king.

Paul Burrell

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke