Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Thomas Szasz

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

Brittany Murphy

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

Ben Stein

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Pope John Paul II

We have more than we use.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

George Eliot

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

David Hume

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Terry Goodkind

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Khalil Gibran

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

Francesca Annis