My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Orison Swett Marden

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Her voice is full of money.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Leo Tolstoy

The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

E. M. Forster

Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

Halldór Laxness

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

William Butler Yeats

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

David Allan Coe

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

Bryan Sykes

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Christopher Hitchens

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Ada Louise Huxtable