By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.Also in Cosmic Religion

Albert Einstein, "New York Times

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

George Michael

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Elizabeth Jennings

The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.

William Hazlitt

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente fraqueza. Pois, para ser sincero, é mais fácil morrer do que suportar com firmeza uma vida de tormentos.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so you have to give it everything you've got.

Tim Cook

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

E. M. Forster

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

William Ellery Channing