True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Deepak Chopra

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Aesop

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Thomas Aquinas

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

Henry David Thoreau

But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?

Clare Boothe Luce

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

James Grant

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey

I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.

Larry Hagman

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Thich Nhat Hanh

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Elihu Root