There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

Anita Brookner

Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

Orson Scott Card

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

Jane Roberts

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality

Carl Gustav Jung

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Marilyn Monroe

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Marlee Matlin

The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

Myrtle Reed

I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

Nelson Mandela

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde