Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

Alexander Hamilton

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Jeff Goodell

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

Whitney Houston

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

Denis Diderot

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

Marilyn Monroe

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

Ian Percy

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot