Mark Twain - When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

H. L. Mencken - Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

George Sand - Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.

Mark Twain - Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Claire Danes - I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

Anton Chekhov - Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Clint Eastwood - Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Benjamin Franklin - It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Charles Kettering - Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

Margaret Thatcher - "A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country’s flag.”

Blaise Pascal - The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Charles E. Jefferson - A man is a patriot if his heart beats true to his country.

Mark Twain - Man was made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.