Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

James Joyce

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasures most dear.

Orson Scott Card

Let me just say: Peace to you, if you're willing to fight for it.

Fred Hampton

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

Brett Favre

What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

Walt Whitman

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Uz cilv?ku neved neviena laipa, neviens tilts. Uz cilv?ku var aiziet tikai pa atspulgiem.

Imants Ziedonis

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Herbert Kaufman

When in doubt, delete it.

Philip Cosby