The truth is often one's best shield.

Kind words may be short... but their echoes are endless.

Mother Theresa

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

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Johann von Goethe

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Julia Roberts

The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.

John Stossel

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Thom Mayne

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Theodore Parker

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

Lester B. Pearson

On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth

Carl Sagan

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Theodore Roosevelt

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Napoleon Bonaparte