If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

David Cassidy

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Ambrose Bierce

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracian

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

Michael: This used to be my father's old study -- it's changed. I remember there used to be a big desk, right here. I remember when I was a kid, Frankie, we had to be very quiet when we played near here. I was very happy that this house never went to strangers -- first Clemenza took it over, now you. My father taught me many things here -- he taught me in this room... (then, as Michael sits beside Pentangeli) He taught me -- keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Mario Puzo, Al Pacino as Michael

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Ivan Illich

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Samuel Johnson

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, then why does he have to enter animality into it?...Can love not be complete without it?...Is love just the name of physical excercize?

Saadat Hasan Manto

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

Aristotle