Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

Jean Baudrillard

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

Aberjhani

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Sarah Dessen

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.

Herbert Hoover

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Doug Coupland

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

Victor Hugo

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

John Eldredge

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

Orson Scott Card

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Charles Caleb Colton