Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

For even if we know very little that is certain about spirit or soul, the true nature of the body, of materiality, is totally unknown and incomprehensible to us.

Being kind is not hereditary

You can grow softly, lovely and delicately amidst the hard surfaces. Not all who passed tougher times in life have a hard heart, kindness and tenderness do breathe despite of worse times.

She's lost in thought. I'm lost in her.

Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people -- and allow people to place themselves -- according to their strengths.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?