Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. (Henry Miller)
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. (Orison Swett Marden)
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. (George Bernard Shaw)
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. (Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky)
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. (Albert Camus)
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. (James Grover Thurber)
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. (Ben Bova)
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. (Bennett Alfred Cerf)
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities, the counselor of our doubts, the clarity of our minds. (Jeremy Taylor)
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy (Norman Vincent Peale)
Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. Free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden. (Robin Green)
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. (Elbert Hubbard)
All men have need of the gods. (Homer)
Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill (Robert C. Byrd)
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton)
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. (Rob Brown)
Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart. (Bill Chickering)
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country. (Nathan Hale)