Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Russell Hoban

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Jerry Brown

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Don Alan Pennebaker

We must be our own before we can be another's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

Thomas Carlyle

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Tom Robbins

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

Julia Barr

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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...so many people end up doing, consciously or not, what others expect of them, or they settle for less because they think achieving their dream is too hard. Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen- Rob Sanders- pediatric physician

What Color Is Your Parachute? Fo

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Taylor Lautner

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Thomas Babington Macaulay