Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.

George Santayana

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Tom Robbins

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Charles Dickens

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

Tatum O'Neal

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

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The human mind and body are truly extraordinary. They are the quintessence of excellence in motion. We talk, touch, see, hear, taste, smell, and feel. We dream, aspire, and become. All that we are is mind and body and spirit—that is our universe.

Lorii Myers

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

Calvin Klein

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Seann William Scott

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

Charlie Kaufman