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- It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
- Author Unknown
- Human nature is not of itself vicious.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.
- Beaumarchis
- Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
- Johnson
- Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
- Erik H. Erikson
- The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
- Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
- Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
- Author Unknown
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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