The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Franz Kafka

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

George McGovern

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Mira Nair

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Charles Baudelaire

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Gene Tierney

Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

Maria Bartiromo

The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

Michelle Bachelet

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann von Goethe

They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

Sean Paul