It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

I don't believe in prom,' I reminded her as she rounded a corner. I expertly angled my raisin bran to accomodate the g-forces. I'd done this before.

John Green

To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

Eleanor Duse

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Robert Ballard

The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.

Stephen Richards

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.

Frank Tyger

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

Paul Sweeney

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Alexandre LedruRollin

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.

Havelock Ellis