Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

Kahlil Gibran

No emancipation without that of society.

Theodor Adorno

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

Robert Forster

All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing

Peter M. Leschak

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.

John Updike, SelfConsciousness:

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Helen Clark

Perhaps there is an idea among Japanese students that one general difference between Japanese and Western poetry is that the former cultivates short forms and the latter longer ones, gut this is only in part true.

Lafcadio Hearn

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Frederic Bastiat

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

Criss Jami