The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Thomas Kempis

Sometimes change was good. Sometimes it was even exactly what you needed.

Jenny O'Connell

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Charles Dickens

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Albert Camus

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Alan Cohen

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Konrad Adenauer

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

J. K. Rowling

You're alone in your ideas, because you're the only one who knows what's possible.

Bethenny Frankel

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Estelle Parsons