We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?

Adrienne Rich

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Dalai Lama

No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

Cassandra Clare

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Christopher Hitchens

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

Paul Ryan

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

Epictetus

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

Source Unknown

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

Michael Hutchence

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Paulo Coelho

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Havelock Ellis