Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Baltasar Gracian

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Oprah Winfrey, "O Magazine", Feb

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

Jean Baudrillard

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

Arne Duncan

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

George Bernard Shaw

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Jonathan Swift

London! hast thou accused me Of breach of laws? the root of strife! Within whose breast did boil to see, So fervent hot, thy dissolute life.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Anna Paglia