No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Barbara de Angelis

There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.
Mahatma Gandhi

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity. W. Clement Stone

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. Spencer Johnson

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and of life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. Harry Emerson Fosdick

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. Erma Bombeck

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. Curtis Billings

I loved ‘Independence Day’ and I’ve liked disaster movies since I was a kid. And to do one with those guys… why not? But I think ‘Godzilla’ with people who I didn’t know anything about, I might have been worried, because it could have been who knows? But I read the script and thought it was really exciting and hey, I wasn’t doing anything and it seemed like a very good thing to do.Matthew Broderick

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality. Adlai Stevenson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! Daniel Webster

July Fourth means a lot to me as an American, … It is a patriotic day. It is not particularly about WWII or any war. It just shows a patriotic way of life we really should celebrate not just on Independence Day but every day. Robert Davies

Wives in their husbands’ absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ( Lord Byron)

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity. ( François de la Rochefoucauld)

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife. (Woody Allen)

Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. ( Ambrose Bierce)

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.(Katherine Anne Porter)

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.(Marcel Proust)

Infidel’ is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them. (Thomas Henry Huxley )

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. (Oscar Wilde)

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. (Albert Einstein)

My brain: it’s my second favorite organ. (Woody Allen)

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. (Albert Einstein)

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. (Sigmund Freud)

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin)

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. (Francis Bacon)

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. (Samuel Smiles)

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. (Billy Wilder)

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. (Michael Burke)

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. (Dr. Benjamin Spock)

Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. (Robert Graves)

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. (John Sterling)

Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. (Dr. Joyce Brothers)

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. (Florence Scovel Shinn)

I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason. (Stanley Baldwin)

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. (Michael Burke)