In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann von Goethe

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

Chuck Palahniuk

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Pierre de Coubertin, The Olympic

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

Orison Swett Marden

To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.

Jami

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Orlando Bloom

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Herman Melville

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

William James

We believe that what we possess we don't ultimately own. God is merely entrusting it to us. And one of the conditions of that trust is that we share what we have with those who have less. So, if you don't give to people in need, you can hardly call yourself a Jew. Even the most unbelieving Jew knows that.

Jonathan Sacks

Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.

Gerhard Kocher