I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

Un croquis vaut mieux qu

Napoleon

America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.

Katherine Lee Bates

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.

Charles Dickens

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

Paulo Coelho

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Oscar Wilde

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

Laurell K Hamilton

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

Maynard James Keenan

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!

Ronald Reagan

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.

Stanislaw Lec, Unkempt Thoughts,