I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously.

J. Kindleberger

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Elliot Paul

The living need charity more than the dead.

George Arnold

Wrists are for bracelets, not for cutting.

Kellin Quinn

But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself --- avoid trying to be something you're not. For a goddess, that's especially hard. We can change so easily.-Aphrodite

Rick Riordan

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Love Sonnet XI

Pablo Neruda

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Victor Hugo

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Zig Ziglar

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

H. L. Mencken

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

Groucho Marx