Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

John Fletcher

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Antonin Artaud

Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

Haile Gebrselassie

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wis

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

If either the absence or the presence of novelty is equally annoying, it would hardly seem that either could be the true cause of despair.

Bertrand Russell

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

Charles Dickens

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

They love their land because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his Majesty.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Joseph De Maistre