The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

David Ogilvy

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

Alexei Sayle

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

Terry Pratchett

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Joyce Maynard

Oh that wisdom was half as zealous for converts as ridicule.

Franz Grillparzer

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

Thomas Hood

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

Proverb

Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreem

No doubt to teach one's own children...takes special qualities. But these are qualities that many people have, or with a little help, can get. ...The home-schooling movement is full of such people, ordinary people doing things that they never would have thought they could do - learning the law, questioning the experts, holding their ground against arrogant and threatening authoritiues, defending themselves and their convictions... Seeing them, other ordinary people think they can do the same, and soon they do. This is why it may be a little misleading to speak of the homeschooling movement. Most people think of a movement as something like an army, a few generals and a great many buck privates. In the movement for homeschooling, everyone is a general.

John Holt, Teach Your Own (New Y

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi