There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. I have heard people admit that t

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Orson Scott Card

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

A fine gentleman like that, they said, had no need of books. Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

Virginia Woolf

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

George Vaillant

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Zack W. Van

A rebel can be a miserable and contemptible man; but there is nothing contemptible in a revolt as such - and to be a rebel in view of contemporary society does not in itself lower the value of a man. There are even cases in which one might have to honour a rebel,because he finds something in our society against which war ought to be waged - he wakens us from our slumber.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

Melissa Bean

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Catharine MacKinnon

The point of power is always in the present moment.

Louise L. Hay

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Publilius Syrus