I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Ted W. Engstrom

I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.

Maria Sharapova

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.

Ron Fournier

The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.

Gregory Nunn

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Oliver Goldsmith

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.

George Eliot

I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose.

Steven Wright

Truth...never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.

John Milton

The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!

Roland Barthes