We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Bodett

The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology.

Michael J. Findley

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Jack Canfield

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Fantasia Barrino

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Fr. Jerome Cummings

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

Donald Pleasence