Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing.

Tracy Morgan

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Alphonse de Lamartine

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

Glenn Frey

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Jesus Christ

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Henri B. Stendhal

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Chanakya

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood Broun

There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit.

Craig Breedlove

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Charles Montesquieu

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual

Virginia Woolf

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Tadao Ando