n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Hannah Arendt

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Jim Mattis

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny

Henry David Thoreau

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Mindy Starns Clark

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Erich Gutkind

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.

Salvatore Satta

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie