The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.

Groucho Marx

In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.

Minnie Driver

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

Jeffrey Kluger

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

Anne Rice

The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.

Jan Patocka

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Bertrand Russell

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Tom Hiddleston

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt