Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Kahlil Gibran

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Jacques Barzun

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Rumi

I think there's a lot of work to be done with our societies. My biggest passions are the environment and health. And when I say 'health' I mean the secrets behind health and our food system.

Shailene Woodley

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult

Discipline is not a nasty word.

Pat Riley

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Ludwig Erhard

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer