We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Joseph Butler

The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.

Rivera Sun

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

Josh Hopkins

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Soren Kierkegaard

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements,but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong.'

Sydney J. Harris

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

George Bernard Shaw

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Sydney Smith