It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

Virgil

I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.

Imelda Marcos

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Aristotle

But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.

Oliver Goldsmith

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Jamie Redknapp

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Gloria Estefan

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Christopher Hitchens

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Albert Einstein

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.

Herb Kohl