Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- Break, falter, and are still.

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, Though I speak without a tongue. Nought but one thing can confound me, Many voices joining round me, Then I fret, and rave, and gabble, Like the labourers of Babel.

What can't be cured, must be endured.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on,—how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour; what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'T is insensible, then? yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I 'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.

'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.

Quarreling is like cutting water with a sword.

The frivolous work of polished idleness. - Sir James Mackintosh,

Eighty percent of success is related to attitude rather than competency.

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel;Achilles absent was Achilles still:Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. - Iliad, The.