A sound like a sound of thunder rolled, And the heart of a nation stirred

...You need to fall deeply in love with your self.

Anne Lamott

We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.

Bertrand Russell

This is Alvin Smith, said Cooper. He's a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.

Orson Scott Card

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the

Albert Einstein

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Franz Schubert

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

Evelyn Ashford

Because we didn't come with a users manual there are no rules on the roles we give fear. Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.

Steve Maraboli

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Camille Paglia

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

James Russell Lowell

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean de La Fontaine

Fortune and humor govern the world.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld