If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

Lea Michele

The moment of change is the only poem.

Adrienne Rich

I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives...

Thomas Jefferson

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

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I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Orson Scott Card

living eulogy.she danced.she sang. she took.she gave.she loved.she created.she dissented. she enlivened.she saw. she grew. she sweated.she changed.she learned. she laughed.she shed her skin.she bled on the pages of her days,she walked through walls,she lived with intention.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Leonard Cohen

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Johann Gottfried Von Herder

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

R. S. Storrs

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce