He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth.

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...

Sappho

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

Politeness is benevolence in small things.

Source Unknown

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism.

Terry Eagleton

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

African Proverb

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please--even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

Henry David Thoreau, Journal, Oc

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Blaise Pascal

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Chuck Palahniuk

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

Rita Rudner

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

H. L. Mencken