I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Konstantin Stanislavisky

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Ralph Nader

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Desiderius Erasmus

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

William Howard Taft

Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

Proverb

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Ossie Davis

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Frank B. Kellogg

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Epistemology models ontology.

John Polkinghorne

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

Dhammapada