The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl Buck

How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Robert Cecil DayLewis

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift. -

Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

Edward Burns

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

William Gurnall

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

Bhagavad Gita

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Francis Bacon

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt