Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne DyerFame is the inheritance, not of the dead but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William HazlittNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter ScottArgument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude SteinYou know more of a road by having traveled it, than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
William HazlittIf I'm a star then the people made me a star.
Marilyn MonroeAn apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman however wrong he might be.
Steve MartinAim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. LewisHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe