As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Albert Camus

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Dee Dee Myers

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Sydney Smith

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

John Gay

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John B. S. Haldane

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Fran Drescher

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Mahavira

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Octavio Paz

Your best is good enough.

Vivian E. Greenberg

Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Benjamin Franklin