There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

John Ruskin

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others: in conversation we nat

Samuel Johnson

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

George Bernard Shaw

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.

Publilius Syrus

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

George Eliot

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Wentworth Miller

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.

Thornton Wilder

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna