A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Nicholas M. Butler

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.

Leo Tolstoy

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Paulo Coelho

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Isaac D'Israeli

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Barry Commoner

I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?

Jenny McCarthy

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Sophocles

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

Doug Larson

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Matthew Arnold