"Another person's secret is like another person's money. You are not as careful with it as you are with your own."
 - E. R. House
 

"It is not what we show off to others but what we hide away that tells our truest story."
 - quoted
 
 

 
"Know thyself."
 - Socrates
 

"The greatest gift that anyone could give to you is for you to see yourself the way I (others) do."
 - from the song "The Greatest Gift"
 

Ego:
 "It is the eyes of other people that destroy us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture."
 - Benjamin Franklin

 
"It is the eyes of other people that destroy us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture."
 - Ben Franklin
 
 

"Iron is destroyed only by its own rust."
 - Old Filipino Proverb
 
 

 
"It's nice to be important but it is more important to be nice."
 - quoted
 

"That man proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he's with us and think when he is gone."
 - quoted
 
 

"If society is nothing else but a mere agglomerate of persons moving without direction, order or coordination, then it is truly a corpse; for whatever one member might do, the other might undo. It would not be long before the members would be fighting andthe society dissolved."
 - Apolinario Mabini; a Philippine Hero
 

The Rule of Society:
"No society can make a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs to the living generation."
-  Thomas Jefferson
 

"The society of tomorrow will be what the family is today."
- Pope John Paul II '87
 

On social concerns:
 "Most people do not live in the prosperity of the industrial world but in the poverty of the peasant-based society - a yoke little better than that of slavery itself."
- Pope Paul II  letter on the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum

 "Success is knowing  the difference between cornering people and getting them to corner."
 - Bill Copeland

 
"The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready when his opportunity comes."

- Benjamin Disraeli
 

What is success?
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a lot better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life who has breathed easier because you lived."
- Emerson
 

"All the success in the world does not mean a thing unless you have someone to share it."
 - from the movie "Night & Day"

 
"The secret of success is being at the right place at the right time."
 - from the TV film "Search and Rescue"
 
 
 "To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continued becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
 - G. B. Shaw
 
 
 "You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success. You can measure it in fancy home, expensive car or dress. But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend. It's the way your son describes you when he's talking to a friend."
- Martin Buxbaum

 
"No matter how dark the beginning, one who strives can reach the sun."
- quoted

 
"In horsemanship, he is not the good rider who never was thrown, but rather a man will never be a good rider until he is thrown."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"It is not what you possess in life that gives you worth, but what you pass on to others."
- Vo Ngoc Tien ; Local Vietnamese Methodist Minister quoting his father
 
 

 
"Tact is the art of thinking twice before saying nothing."
- quoted
 
 

 
"A divine gift is not to be questioned; it can only be accepted."
- from the movie "Clash of the Titans"
 
 

 
"Teaching is something that takes place only when learning does. No matter what the teacher is doing in his classes, if the students are not learning something significant, he is not teaching."
 - N. Michael Niflis
 
 

 
"Tears are a kind of emotional first-aid."
 - Joyce Brothers
 

"Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair."
 - Leigh Hunt

 
"God gave us tears to wash our pains away."
 - quoted
 
 

 
"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
 - Jacquiline Schiff
 
 

 
"What a melancholy world this would be without children and what an inhuman world without the aged."
 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
 

 
"Time has only one direction."
 - from "Reverse of Fortune"
 

"I don't feel time. Birth is not a question of date, it is a question of within - of your spirit, and of how you look at life."
 - Lily Pons
 
 

 
"No one is wholly tolerant. The more you believe in tolerance the less you can tolerate the intolerant."
 - Robert Quillen
 
 

 
"Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny."
 - Edmund Burke
 

On Despotism:
 "It is when man begins to grow desperate in their love for people, when they are overwhelmed with the difficulties and blunders of humanity, that they fall back upon the wild desire to manage everything themselves. The sin and sorrow of despotism is not that it does not love men but that it loves them too much and trusts them too little."
- G. K. Cheskerton
 

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the "still small voice" within me."
- Ghandi
 
 

"You can build a throne of bayonets but you cannot sit on it."
 - Senator Jose Diokno to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 on Marcos declaration of Martial Law