If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

Paulo Coelho

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

Lionel Trilling

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Joseph Priestley

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

Phil Ochs

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

Gautama Buddha

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Paul Lynde

He is free... who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

Salvador De Madriaga

There are charms made only for distance admiration.

Samuel Johnson

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

Robert Smithson

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

C. Northcote Parkinson

It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

Bryan Clay

Be careful who you choose as your friends because their bad habits can become your bad habits. Choose wisely...we all have a choice in life.

Mimi Jenkins