Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Carl Hiaasen

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.http://www.beliefnet.com/story/160/story_16071_1.html

Deepak Chopra, from an interview

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Iyanla Vanzant

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

C.S. Lewis

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

Seal

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Margaret Fairless Barber