There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
ConfuciusThe greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
AristotleAlmost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor HugoMy dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
Marilyn MansonHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouIf you are young and you drink a great deal, it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.
P. J. O'RourkeI had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauYou see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
Stephen KingThe mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.
Richard M. Nixon