Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Aesop

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Anthony Robbins

Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests, and exterminate fishes, birds, and mammalsnot to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at last it looks as if our people were awakening. Many leading men, Americans and Canadians, are doing all they can for the Conservation movement.

Theodore Roosevelt

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Lew Wallace

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

Paris Hilton

...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...

John Geddes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

John Foster Dulles

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Abraham Lincoln

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.

Source Unknown

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

J.K. Rowling

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Franz Boas