A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Thought, backed by strong desire, has a tendency to transmute itself into its physical equivalent.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Truth is a tendency.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

We tend to get what we expect.

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...