Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

Nicole Kidman

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Erich Fromm

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.

Robert Bridges

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

John B. S. Haldane

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

Georges Clemenceau

You can't rely just on talent to win.

Scott Young

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Victor Hugo

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

Brian Tracy

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Kahlil Gibran

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Bobby Ray Inman