Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Conforming is not cool.

Adam Lambert

Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.

Mark Twain

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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.

Clarence Day

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

Alfred E. Smith

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Brian L. Weiss

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

E. W. Howe

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

Arabella Weir

Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.

Ambrose Bierce

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Victor Hugo

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

Lauren Bacall