Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good!

Elizabeth Wordsworth

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Aaron Burr

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Barbara Barrington Jones

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Juvenal

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people.

Paula Deen

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.

Ernest Hemingway

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

Sean Hannity

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

Germaine Greer

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

George Bernard Shaw

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein