There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy.

Paulo Coelho

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

W.E. (William Edwin) Sangster, T

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

Criss Jami

A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.

Publilius Syrus

Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.

Lena Herrmann

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Jackie Robinson

But we should see gratitude in the whole context of life, and ask ourselves that life is changed and empowered by it.

Ted Malloch

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Marilyn Monroe

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Keith O'Brien

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

Angela Davis

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Virginia Woolf