People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.

Orson Scott Card

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Og Mandino

When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.

Rafael Palmeiro

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Samuel Johnson

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

Anon.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

Jenna Dewan

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Lou Holtz

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

I dare the truth, Elaida, Egwene said quietly. you are a coward and a tyrant. I'd name you Darkfriend as well, but I suspect that the Dark One would perhaps be embarrassed to associate with you.

Robert Jordan

Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

Stephen Richards