If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Herbert A. Otto

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

William Hodding Carter, Jr.

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer,

One guy wants to help the rich the other the poor neither one works since raising taxes causes instability. They should do neither and eliminate everything from the budget until we're making more then we're spending. It's not rocket science.

James Dye

I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Napoleon Hill

Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.

Oscar Wilde

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

Christina Rossetti

Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.

D. J. Enright

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

George Eliot