Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Terry Pratchett

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cesare Pavese

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

Gilbert Murray

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

Source Unknown

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done.

Jaime King

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

Dalton Trumbo

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

Plutarch

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Eliot Spitzer

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Oscar Wilde