Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

... and shame is a poor counterfeit of humility. Shame is the fruit of humiliation that works against the truth. p.52

Bill Johnson

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

Anna Lindh

A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.

Ronald Reagan

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Ethel Merman

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

James Allen

It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

Ramana Maharshi

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Blaise Pascal

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Khalil Gibran

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Jack Nicholson

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon