Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson

I was already set for life when I met her.

David Gest

Married couples who work together to build and maintain a business assume broad responsibilities. Not only is their work important to our local and national economies, but their success is central to the well-being of their families.

Melissa Bean

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison

...cineva care stie a iubi cu adevarat poate experimenta voluptatea oricat de neinsemnata ar fi atingerea trupului celuilalt. Ii explicasem atunci ca, pentru mine, posesiunea e mult mai neinteleasa si mai complicata decat se pare. E foarte greu sa ai ceva cu adevarat, sa-l capeti sau sa-l cuceresti. Mai mult ne inchipuim ca posedam decat posedam.

Mircea Eliade

There is nobody more terrible than the desperate.

Alexander Suvorov

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

William Wordsworth, from Preface

Doing a great job and not meeting the customer's objectives is as useless as doing a poor job within the customer's objectives.

Thomas Faranda

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

Anna Godbersen