The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich A. Hayek

Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

Adedayo kingjerry

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans --which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

George Eliot

Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!

Nathan Hale

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

Sri Chinmoy

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Leo Tolstoy

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Joseph Roux

Better build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.

Eliza Cook

I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.

Emma Thompson

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Warren Buffett