Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edward Edwards

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Whitey Herzog

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. George Bush and an Australian Aborigine have fewer differences than a Lhasa apso and a toy fox terrier. A Japanese raised in Riyadh would be an Arab. A Zulu raised in New Rochelle would be an orthodontist. People are all the same, though their circumstances differ terribly.

P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.

Neil Gaiman

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

Source Unknown

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

John Gay

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Carl Bernstein, In Guardian, (Lo

Free yourself from the imprisonment of your own limiting beliefs and prejudices.

Steve Maraboli