Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Fraud and prevarication are servile vices. They sometimes grow out of the necessities, always out of the habits, of slavish and degenerate spirits. It is an erect countenance, it is a firm adherence to principle, it is a power of resisting false shame and frivolous fear, that assert our good faith and honor, and assure to us the confidence of mankind.

Edmund Burke

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Haruki Murakami

There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butler

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Nathan Collins

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Lee Iacocca

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

Paulo Coelho

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Oliver Goldsmith

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

Mike Hawkins

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Laurence J. Peter

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

George Orwell