I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Friedrich Schiller

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Georgia O'Keeffe

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Job 12:12

Bible

He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

Ron Reagan

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

Christian Nevell Bovee

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Patrick Henry

It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

Friedrich Engels

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

Albert Camus

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Immanuel Kant, from From Idee zu