By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Taylor Caldwell

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

Suddenly I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me.

Oscar Wilde

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

Eliot Spitzer

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

John Hospers

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

Source Unknown

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

Walter Bagehot

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent

Mark Twain