If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Black Elk

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

Demi Moore

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

Emma Thompson

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steve Irwin

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.

Source Unknown

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Chevy Chase

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. R. Ambedkar

I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.

Don Marquis