That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

Ernest Thompson Seton

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Johannes Tauler

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Bill Hicks

People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

John Hodgman

A Bay Area Bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

Woody Allen

...and your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

J.K. Rowling

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

Doug Coupland

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Knut Hamsun

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell