Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Jodi Picoult

The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical

Thomas Jefferson

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles Kettering

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Ambrose Bierce

Happiness requires problems

H. L. Hollingworth

I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.

Jeanne Moreau

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter t

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now