Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Giacomo Casanova

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Billy Graham

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust

There are 2 things that will bring you success in life: 1) Don't tell everyone everything you know.

Anonymous

The more you give, the more you get.

Anonymous

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Nancy Astor

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Morrie Schwartz

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

Source Unknown

Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.

Michel Foucault

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

Czeslaw Milosz