All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

W. Winwood Reade

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Thomas Mann

Of course, both major parties today seek to serve the national interest. They would do so in order to obtain the broadest base of support, if for no nobler reason. But when party and officeholder differ as to how the national interest is to be served, we must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Tom Wilson

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

Source Unknown

Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

Matthew Prior

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

Henry Kravis

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

Youssou N'Dour

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Jodi Picoult

What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

Charles Dickens