The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.