"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." Kahlil Gibran

"That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth


"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."Thomas Jefferson

"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." William J. H. Boetcker

"The absence of war is not peace." Harry S Truman

"The activating power of the mantra is such that it enlightens by destroying the inner darkness at the sub-atomic level. As such, the inhibiting, negative karmas, masked by ignorance and held within as limiting characteristics, are released to the light of the individual one atom at a time." Swami Sai Premananda

"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." Oscar Wilde

"The ancestor of every action is a thought." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence." John F. Kennedy

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist." Novalis

"The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life." W. Edward Brown

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

"The arts are the servant wisdom its master." Seneca

"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." Eric Hoffer

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man." Euripides

"The best armor is to keep out of range." Italian Proverb

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." Theodore Roosevelt

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy" Robert Burns

"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting." Sun-tzu

"The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance." Pablo Casals

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity." Richard M. Nixon

"The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires." William Hazlitt

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." Theodore Roosevelt

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." Theodore Roosevelt

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain." Kahlil Gibran

"The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." William Shakespeare

"The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy

"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." Nathaniel Hawthorne