People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

Bodhidharma

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Evelyn Waugh

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Jewel

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is precisely this glow that we can offer as our specific contribution to international politics.

Vaclav Havel

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.

Mayor Jimmy Walker

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.

Curtis LeMay

Am auzit sau am citit c? filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafa?? un înveli? de cuar?, din care e greu s? extragi metalul. Presupun c? ?i inima ta are un asemenea înveli?; în?untru se afl? metalul pre?ios, dar afurisita asta de coaj? nu s-a topit de tot...

Henryk Sienkiewicz

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Henry Fielding

And now I'm looking at you, he said, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything ever has.

Cassandra Clare