The Good of man is the active exercise of his souls faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Warren Buffett

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

Stephen Chbosky

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Chinese Proverb

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Kenneth L. Pike

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

Shaunti Feldhahn

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you do not know when it is through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia

He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth.

Anthony Trollope

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Paul Cezanne

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

Friedrich von Schiller