Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.

Frank Tyger

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Chinese Proverb

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

John Gray

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Oprah Winfrey

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Otto Weininger

The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice: the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit; it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation

Friedrich Nietzsche

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

Emma Forrest

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Bertrand Russell

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

Charlie Sheen

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

Howard Hughes