We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.

Harry Lorayne

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Karl Kraus

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Joseph Joubert

Ah, what shall we say then, but that earth threatened often Shall live on for ever that such things may be, That the dry seed shall quicken, the hard earth shall soften, And the spring-bearing birds flutter north o'er the sea, That earth's garden may bloom round my love's feet and me?

William Morris

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.

George Shearing

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

C.S. Lewis

For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.

C. H. Webb

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bruce Lee

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

Vince Lombardi

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thomas Jefferson

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres