It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Swami Ramdas

Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Henry Lewis Stimson

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

Nothing inspires honesty like fear or trouble.

Steve Maraboli

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

James Bovard

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Lawrence Durrell

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George