A good test of a man's religion is its vitality.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

Narada Michael Walden

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Thomas Carlyle

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.

Saint Francis of Assisi

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Amos Bronson Alcott

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

LaoTzu