But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Jean Anouilh

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Albert Camus

How would your life change if your actions did all the talking and all you used your mouth for was to say please and thank you?

Steve Maraboli

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Jon Meacham

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

Thought is the seed of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Red Auerbach

Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines --these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

Henry Miller

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Thomas Carlyle

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

Henry David Thoreau