A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

The actual well seen is ideal.

Thomas Carlyle

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Paulo Coelho

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy.

Henry A. Wallace

I doubt love can do little else, if it cannot bring back people back from the dead.

James Potter

Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.

Orson Scott Card

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Never mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.

Fulton John Sheen

I just don't crave junk food.

Cat Deeley

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

Betty Friedan