One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first time we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings...

Paulo Coelho

There are two ways not to suffer from poverty. The first is to acquire more wealth. The second is to limit your requirements. The first is not always within our power, but the second is always in our power.

Leo Tolstoy

Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens.

Source Unknown

With publicity comes humiliation.

Tama Janowitz

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain

Samuel Johnson

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

King Abdullah II

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Alan Autry

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representat

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect

Maya Angelou