The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Andrew Young

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.http://www.inaugural05.com/history/37.aspx

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Ina

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Randolph Ray

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to Americanize him.

Charles Horton Cooley

If we value what we've inherited for free - from other women - surely it's right morally and ethically for us to wake up and say, 'I'm a feminist. '

Annie Lennox

Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.

William Shakespeare

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer, The Deer Park

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

Leigh Hunt

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

Virginia Hamilton

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich von Schiller