What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically.

Karl Mannheim

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

Conrad Black

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

Meg Cabot

I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.

Rodney Alexander

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

Courteney Cox

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Rudyard Kipling

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Brit Marling

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made

George Bernard Shaw

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

Steve Maraboli