All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal-a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achie

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to fulfill our duty for the purpose of its reward.

Leo Tolstoy

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Talib Kweli

Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

Robert D. Hales

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

Celebrity is death --- celebrity -- that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

John Cusack

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Marilyn Hacker

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Martin Fleischmann

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Michael Jordan

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

G. K. Chesterton

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf