Never judge someone by who he's in love with judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann von Goethe

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Eric Liu

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Robert Anton Wilson

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!

Richard M. DeVos

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Edward Abbey

The average man's opinions are generally of more value to himself than to anyone else.

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As the birds do love the spring, Or the bees their careful king

Henry Constable

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

George Carey

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Andrew Young