The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

When you like your work every day is a holiday.

Frank Tyger

The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say me and mine ; they are only blessed in being instruments.

Swami Vivekananda

The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.

John Stuart Mill

The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.

Brian Moore

Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

C.S. Lewis

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Debi Thomas

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Paulo Coelho

Doorman -- a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Dorothy Kilgallen

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi