Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Malcolm Forbes

You know how to conquer, Hannibal, but not how to profit by your victory.

Macherbal

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

Maynard James Keenan

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.

Midge Decter

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

George Fordyce

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Madonna Ciccone

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.

Robert Nelson

Private and public life are subject to the same rules; and truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy, or tact, or expediency, or any other word that was ever devised to conceal or mystify a deviation from the straight line.

General Robert E. Lee

In hell, the Devil is God.

Kedar Joshi