A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.

Japanese Proverb

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

Kathy Mattea

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges.

Kurt Vonnegut

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

Michael Vick

Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.

John O'Donohue

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt

Samuel Johnson

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

Edward W. Howe

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

John Cusack

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Mary Douglas