No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.

Albert J. Beveridge

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.

Wilder Penfield, Foreward to the

Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.

Source Unknown

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Theodore Parker

The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

Leo Rosten

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

Harold Coffin

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

James Joyce

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!'

Jane Pauley

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard Mandeville

Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Margaret Mead