The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

Frances Wright

A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

Ambrose Bierce

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Alexander Hamilton

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

Estelle Morris

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Mae West, My Little Chickadee, 1

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

William Shakespeare

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Robert Collier

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Steven Morrissey

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

William Daniels

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively

Voltaire

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

Slobodan Milosevic