Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Margaret Mead

When intent and action mate, the offspring is success.

Steve Maraboli

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as (the) brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun'

Jonathan Edwards

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Hugh Jackman

She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.

Jamie Foxx

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Emma Goldman

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

I find peace when I'm confused, I find hope when I'm let down, not in me but in you.

Switchfoot

"Who are the true philosophers you have in mind?" he asked. "Sightseers of the truth" I answered. "That must be right, but what exactly does it mean?" he asked.

Plato

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing it well or you're doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That is actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green