The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Haile Gebrselassie

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Archimedes

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening...http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/109.html

Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis: A Monod

I insist, that if there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.

Abraham Lincoln

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Lynda Barry

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

Bono

The things that matteredWere broken and shatteredOne by one

Jonny Lang

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

George Santayana

The kid is scary.

Orson Scott Card

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe