It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

Roy Keane

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Dale Carnegie

A thief believes everybody steals.

Edward W. Howe

In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective stories.

Heywood Hale Broun

To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Oscar Wilde

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

George Santayana

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales