The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

Scott Adams

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Billy Graham

God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.

Francis Bacon

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

Ayumi Hamasaki

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

Gerard Depardieu

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Bernard Berenson