No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Allen Saunders

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Churton Collins

I love each and every one of you but, like my own family, you thrill, you frustrate, you anger.

John Buchanan

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Caspar David Friedrich

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Johann von Goethe

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

Les Aspin

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

Eldridge Cleaver

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Mark Twain

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

Isabelle Adjani

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Winston Churchill