He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you.

Stephen Richards

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

Jodi Picoult

Truth is a great flirt.

Franz Liszt

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Satchel Paige

Apparently, conspiracy stuff is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

Gore Vidal

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Far from the madding crowd

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

Ed Koch

I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

Edward VIII

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Alveda King

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

Theodor Adorno

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab