A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.

Sydney Smith

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, AllT

My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.

Kerri Walsh

But it is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.

Stefan Zweig

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

Henry Cuellar

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

R. A. Torrey

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.

Jim Caviezel

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oscar Niemeyer

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Jim Hightower

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Cardinal De Richelieu

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

Barbara Ehrenreich