To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

Francis Bacon

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise L. Hay

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.

Ron Fournier

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Saint Augustine

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

G. K. Chesterton

An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Gretchen Rubin

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Betty Friedan

I was studying for the SAT's and learning lines.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt