A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.Marilyn Monroe
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.Benjamin Franklin
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.Richard Bach
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.Aristotle
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.Steve Jobs