It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Dear heart, he murmured, do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught that puzzles you in what I said, try and trust me a little longer. Remember, I must save the Dauphin at all costs; mine honor is bound with his safety. What happens to me after that matters but little, yet I wish to live for your dear sake.

Emmuska Orczy

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

Michael Singer

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

Joseph Conrad

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Richard Marcinko

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

Stephen Sondheim

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

Ronald Reagan

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

Evo Morales

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have the courage to complain, that's their problem

Paulo Coelho

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

Lionel Trilling

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Mark Twain

The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Orison Swett Marden

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

George Bernard Shaw