Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
Walt Disney

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil Gibran

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
Nelson Mandela

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
Ernest Hemingway

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
Ernest Hemingway

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Wayne Dyer

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Margaret Thatcher

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
Margaret Thatcher

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Margaret Thatcher