The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. —Abigail Van Buren More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph. —Pierre Corneille More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. —Confucius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble. —Raymond Joseph Teller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility... —Madeleine L'Engle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. —Salman Rushdie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. —Steve Jobs More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. —Chuck Palahniuk More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. —Helen Keller More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Those whom we support hold us up in life. —Marie Ebner von Eschenbach More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one? —Lucy Maud Montgomery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email