The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Glenn Beck

The career stuff is for business people.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

Joel Edgerton

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Allan Kardec

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

Scott McCloud

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Lennart Meri

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer.

Joyce Cary

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

Aliki

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Ashley Montagu

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

David Kay

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus