The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

John Buchanan Robinson

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Oscar Wilde

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

George Bernard Shaw

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it

Confucius

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed.

Virginia Ostman

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and thoroughly worth living.

Terry Pratchett

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

Maxwell Maltz

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

David Eddings