And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

Man is manacled only by himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate.

James Allen

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.

S.E. Lindberg

Tsuki ni murakumo, hana ni kazeClouds over the moon, a storm over blossoms

Japanese Proverb

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

George Eliot

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

George Santayana

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

Evan Esar

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Frank Herbert

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.

Viola Spolin

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

Jean Baudrillard