Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Doug Horton

Age considers youth ventures.

Rabindranath Tagore

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Ivan Illich

love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!

Ruskin Bond

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one's grip on that quiet sense of inner self and hitching one's wagon to a single standard of beauty. The stress of leaping through that hoop insinuates itself into the young heart and soul with a vengeance, and insecurities go from being hard little buds of confusion to overripe, snarled and tyrannical fruits that hang on the vine as we age.

Debra Ollivier

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Diane Arbus

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Miguel Angel Ruiz