Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

Aldous Huxley

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

George Eliot

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

John Ratzenberger

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

William Hazlitt

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Ibrahim Babangida

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Bertrand Russell

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always.

Mark Twain

I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.

Steven Wright

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Venus Williams

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

Mike Mills

Popular applause veers with the wind.

John Bright