We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev

Religion is like holding on to a rock in the middle of a raging river; faith is learning how to swim.

Source Unknown

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.... When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Wri

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

Jerry Saltz

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Alanis Morissette

He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As long as we were living in the spirit we would continue to be blessed

Crystal Flanagan

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Sir Walter Scott

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

S. Tobin Webster