Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

John Ruskin

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Jeremy Taylor

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?

Cassandra Clare

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

Plato

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Sir John Mortimer

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Carlos Ghosn

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

E. M. Cioran

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

Hugh Jackman

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

John Wooden

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

Tom Petty