As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system

Aditia Rinaldi

It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name, it

JeanPaul Sartre, from the prefac

Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind

Albert Einstein

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Arquette

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

James Anderton

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

James Graham

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Emanuel Swedenborg

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Sean Paul

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

James Allen

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Victor Hugo

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Joseph Addison