Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

Cassandra Clare

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

Nicholas Boileau

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

Kin Hubbard

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

Emily Mitchell

True love doesn't happen right away it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

Ricardo Montalban

I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.

Dominic Monaghan

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

Daisaku Ikeda

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

Theodor Adorno