One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

Every day you face two important decisions: what effect you want your speech and actions to have on the world around you, and what impressions and vibrations you want to be receptive to.

Kalashatra Govinda

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Niccolo Machiavelli

...who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

Neil Gaiman

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Paulo Coelho

In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.

Charles Darwin

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Elisabeth Rohm

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

Michael J. Fox

I've always known I wanted a family.

Charlize Theron

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it

Jane Austen