July 4th is the 5th.

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Source Unknown

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Michael Parenti

A yawn is a silent shout.

G. K. Chesterton

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

Tim Duncan

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

Karen Armstrong

That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off.The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay

Charles Dickens

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bruce Lee

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Jeffrey Sachs

I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.

Jean Pigozzi

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

Lord Byron