We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Aristotle

My first film as an actor was 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' a glorious experience that spoiled me for future films.

Eric Stoltz

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

J.K. Rowling

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Professor Blackie

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Goran Persson

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

Paula Hawkins

The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.

Paulo Coelho

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Barbara Mandrell