Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

Patrick Duffy

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Christopher Hitchens

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

David Merrick

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

Stop being a victim of your own circumstances

Steve Maraboli

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

Phyllis McGinley

Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.

Plato

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.

Proverb

For we put the power in the people.

William Penn

But I must own that I am much in the Dark about Light. I am not satisfy'd with the doctrine that supposes particles of matter call'd light continually driven off from the Sun's Surface, with a Swiftness so prodigious!

Benjamin Franklin

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

Lindsey Kelk