A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we're lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are.

Ally Condie

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick W. Faber

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Booth Tarkington

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Thomas Jefferson

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Theodor Adorno

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

Elena Kagan

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Kurt Vonnegut

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Jillian Michaels

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

Joseph De Maistre

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Maria Schell

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

Stephen King

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

Christopher Marlowe