Lettres Philosophiques Quotes

#1. The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by someone weaker than you.

Gautama Buddha

#2. The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

Leonard Ravenhill

#3. A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.

Brie Larson

#4. The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Be dignified, honest and truthful.

Umar

#6. I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain.

Voltaire

#7. I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.

Torrey DeVitto

#8. I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Dalai Lama

#9. Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.

Erich Fromm

#10. I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

Daniel H. Pink

#11. Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

Henry Rollins

#12. I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

Larry King

#13. The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Stevie Smith

#14. Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Pliny The Younger

#15. Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Hillary Rodham Clinton