A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Win new friends but keep the old. The first are silver; the latter gold.

Source Unknown

He does not weep who does not see.

Victor Hugo

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Jerry Saltz

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Robert Baden-Powell

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Thomas Merton

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Franz Kafka

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

George Galloway

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Norman Lear

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.

Archie Panjabi

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Timothy Bentley

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Coretta Scott King

The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did.

Kurt Vonnegut