Bribe, Book of Proverbs

A guilty person takes out a bribe from the pocket, thus perverting the course of justice.

+ Proverbs 17, 23

[17:23] A sharp look at the sly withdrawing of a bribe from the pocket and a blunt judgment on its significance.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/proverbs/17

Personality, Western Proverb

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

- Western Proverb

Decisions, Sally Reardon from Felicity

Our best decisions come from listening to ourselves.

- Sally Reardon from Felicity #19

Optimist, Helen Keller

No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

- Helen Adams Keller (1880–1968)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller

Friends, Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost

- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) [The Education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch. 7.]

Beauty, Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

― Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), The Importance of Being Earnest

Attitudes, Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Beauty, Cynthia Hand

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

Beauty, Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

― Albert Camus (1913-1960)