If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Ernest Hemingway

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

Imelda Marcos

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Johnny Vegas

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.

Anais Nin, The Novel of the Futu

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced.... Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year

Archibald MacLeish, "Saturday Re

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.

Antonio Machado

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Drew Curtis

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Midge Decter

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.