The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

Anthony Robbins

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Jeremy Renner

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Henry David Thoreau

Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.

Isaac Leib Peretz

I think it's actually a misperception that I am a comedic actress. I do more drama than comedy but very little of it has been seen. When you are in big funny movies and they do well and your little part in it kind of explodes people perceive you as a comedian.

Octavia Spencer

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It was characteristic of the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany and of the Communist movements in Europe after 1930 that they recruited their members from this mass of apparently indifferent people whom all other parties had given up as too apathetic or too stupid for their attention. The result was that the majority of their membership consisted of people who never before had appeared on the political scene. This permitted the introduction of entirely new methods into political propaganda, and indifference to the arguments of political opponents; these movements not only placed themselves outside and against the party system as a whole, they found a membership that had never been reached, never been

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of To

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself

Mark Twain

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for theground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

A. W. Tozer

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Mahatma Gandhi