Man is a substance clad in shadows.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Source Unknown

I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Stephen King

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.

Lord Chesterfield

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you represent.

Guy Verhofstadt

The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

Saint Francis de Sales

I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.

Glenn Beck

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson