There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

Charles Alexander Eastman

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

Michael Clarke Duncan

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

Omar Bongo

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Lee Trevino

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

I went to a 711 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, tenfour.

Steven Wright

Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.

Denis Waitley

The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

James Allen, A Kentucky Cardinal

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

John Scarlett

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

The people recognize themselves in their commodities they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

Herbert Marcuse