I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.

Vince Gill

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

Sydney Smith

Consider the Lichen. Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but the least ambitious.

Bill Bryson

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Marianne Williamson

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Simon Hoggart

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

Kahlil Gibran

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom

Allan Lokos

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intima

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Marc Andreessen