Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.

Mary Kay Ash

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labor, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human ac

Samuel Johnson

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

Eugenio Montale

They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.

Matthew Prior

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

James Dyson

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands

Samuel Johnson

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich von Schiller

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Gabrielle Giffords

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Cynthia McKinney

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman