Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

H. L. Mencken

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

Xun Zi

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Eugene Ionesco

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Mother Teresa

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

Lisa Kudrow

Sight before hearsay.

Danish proverb

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.

Richard Pryor

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

Barack Obama

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.

Mark Twain