I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.

Jane Haddam

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

James Buckham

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Samuel Butler

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Phillip Hauge Abelson

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Michael Graves

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.

Saul Williams

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.

Michel de Montaigne

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Thomas Carlyle

A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

William Kingdon Clifford