Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

George Eliot

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

Conor Oberst

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Jane Cahill Pfeiffer

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Samuel Butler

None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Stevie Wonder

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

Mary O'Connor

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

James Cash Penney

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Mitt Romney

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Pope John Paul II

In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.

Gerhard Kocher