To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

William Graham Sumner

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

Nicole Kidman

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

George Washington, in a letter t

A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction.

Steve Maraboli

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Mary Arnim

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Henry James

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

Peter Schuyler

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

Emma Roberts

He who would travel happily must travel light

Antoine De SaintExupery

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

Geoffrey Rush

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins