Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

Mark Twain

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

William Hazlitt

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.

Oscar Solomon Straus

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

Kim Kardashian

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

George Eliot

The jests of the rich are ever successful.

Oliver Goldsmith