Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

He becomes strenuous, energetic, and perhaps eager for what must after all be regarded as success, and at last he fights for a verdict rather than for the truth.

Anthony Trollope

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Stephen Hawking

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Jerry Saltz

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

LaoTzu

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Katharine Weber

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Aron Nimzowitsch

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

J. G. Ballard, Interview: Books

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

John Robinson

I do not see my family life in any way, shape, or form as an opportunity for a photo.

Shania Twain