I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

These have not the hope to die.

Dante Alighieri

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Thomas Traherne

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Swami Vivekananda

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann von Goethe

I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.

Ken Gire

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Georgia Witkin

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Muhammad Ali

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

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