How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to madness? What is truth but to live for an idea? When all is said and done, everything is based on a postulate; but not until it no longer stands on the outside, not until one lives in it, does it cease to be a postulate.

America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.

Mike Ferguson

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

G. W. F. Hegel

The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.

Denis Diderot

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers.

C.S. Lewis, Lilies that Fester

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins

What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

Jodi Picoult

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.

Carter G. Woodson

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Ron Reagan

Your agreement with reality defines your life.

Steve Maraboli

Pride and humiliation hand in hand

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

J.K. Rowling