Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Branden

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

Lindsey Graham

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

Marcel Proust

we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand

Albert Einstein

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Mark Twain

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

Blake Shelton

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

George Eliot

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

J. M. Coetzee

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

George Saunders

?''I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. (...) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, through the efforts of your intellect, becomes a member of your own body, and only this truth really belongs to us.

Leo Tolstoy

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen