Harper Lee

 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. 

- Harper Lee

Alexis de Tocqueville

 The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. 

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Anthony Hopkins

 We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance. 

- Anthony Hopkins

Marcus Aurelius

 Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. 

- Marcus Aurelius

Winston Churchill

 My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

- Winston Churchill

Thomas Jefferson

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Walter Anderson

 Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. 

- Walter Anderson

Saint Augustine

 Patience is the companion of wisdom. 

- Saint Augustine

H. L. Mencken

 A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. 

- H. L. Mencken

Bryant H. McGill

 One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. 

- Bryant H. McGill

Voltaire

 Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. 

- Voltaire

Walter Winchell

 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. 

- Walter Winchell

Brian Tracy

 You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. 

- Brian Tracy

Steven Wright

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

- Steven Wright

James Garner

 I don't take success very well, because I know it's fleeting. And the next day, it can all fall apart. I know that, too. So I don't get too high, and I don't get too low. You get through the world a lot easier that way. 

- James Garner

Isaac Newton

 Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. 

- Isaac Newton

Betty White

 It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. 

- Betty White

Bertrand Russell

 The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 

- Bertrand Russell

Albert Schweitzer

 Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 

- Albert Schweitzer

Horatio Nelson

 Desperate affairs require desperate measures. 

- Horatio Nelson

Ulysses S. Grant

 I have never advocated war except as a means of peace. 

- Ulysses S. Grant

Ayn Rand

 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. 

- Ayn Rand

Andrew Jackson

 The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. 

- Andrew Jackson

John Lennon

 When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream. 

- John Lennon

Sophia Loren

 Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. 

- Sophia Loren

Pope John Paul II

 Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. 

- Pope John Paul II

Oscar Wilde

 An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. 

- Oscar Wilde

Leonardo da Vinci

 A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not. 

- Leonardo da Vinci

Geoffrey Chaucer

 Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. 

- Geoffrey Chaucer

Clint Eastwood

 I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. 

- Clint Eastwood

Mark Twain

 Golf is a good walk spoiled. 

- Mark Twain