Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Hans Hofmann

I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.

Elizabeth Scott

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

Al Gore

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Oscar Wilde

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Bill Maher

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

The divine egoism hat is genius.

Mary Webb