Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived.

Sebastian Faulks

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

Dorthea Brande

Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility -- the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.

W. H. Auden

Wise men do not quarrel with each other.

Danish proverb

I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Ken Keyes Jr.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Mark Twain

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

Ralph Ellison

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Adrien Brody

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch