Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

A small profit it better than a big loss

Ron Rash

In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.

John P. Roche

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

J.K. Rowling

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Three removes are as bad as a fire

Benjamin Franklin

My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.

Cheech Marin

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Roderick Evans