Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Justin, honey, you were my very first kiss. My very first hand to hold. But you were nothing more than an average guy. And I don't say that to be mean- I don't. There was just something about you that made me need to be your girlfriend to this day I don't know exactly what that was. But it was there.. and it was amazingly strong. -Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Steven Wright

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Daniel Morgan

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.

Jacques Ellul

Whatever is your best time in the day, give that to communion with God.

Hudson Taylor

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Alain Badiou

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B. R. Ambedkar

It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

Criss Jami

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo