It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre --but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it --the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir

Mahatma Gandhi

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

Bruce Springsteen

Ideas... they have the power

Napoleon Hill

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Roger Ebert

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Abraham Lincoln

Everything that gets born dies.

Morrie Schwartz

Stop letting others define you! Stop letting others dilute you! You weren't created to live their life; you were created to live yours - so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring the passion back into your goals, dreams, ambitions, careers, and relationships by reclaiming control of your own life. Be unapologetically YOU!

Steve Maraboli

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell