Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Ginnifer Goodwin

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Samuel Johnson

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Mark Twain

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

Samuel Butler

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Thabo Mbeki

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Lillian Hellman, The Watch on th

It may not be the most popular but there is a place for it. I think about the kind of music I love, acoustic, melodic, and I guess it kind of took a bit of courage on my part to think I could be one of those songwriters.

Helen Slater

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Ogden Nash

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Henri B. Stendhal

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Isadora Duncan