A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

We must be the epitome - the embodiment - of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

Earl Nightingale

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

Ingrid Newkirk

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles M. Schwab

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

Charles Cumming

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

Torquato Tasso

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs, 1914

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

William Shakespeare

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

John Steinbeck

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendell Willkie