Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

E. M. Cioran

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

Cliff Richard

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

Craig Bruce

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.

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In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.

Myriam Miedzian

Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

E. T. Bell

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

Eric Ries