The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly to the heart. -- Viktor Schauberger.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Naguib Mahfouz

To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

Federico Garcia Lorca

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Henry Louis Gates

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lauryn Hill

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

Adam Smith

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

Booboo Stewart

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family

Albert Einstein

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.

Jane Austen