When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

William Godwin

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

Steve Maraboli

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

Julian McMahon

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Feather

Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

Johann von Goethe

It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.

American Indian Proverb

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Sugar Ray Leonard

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

William Shakespeare

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Hannah Arendt

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

Kurt Vonnegut

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Ang Lee