Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Laurence J. Peter

A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you.

M.J. Chrisman

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish

David Hume

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Wallace Stevens

When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

Ai Weiwei

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

Kahlil Gibran

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Enrique Solari

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

Mehmet Oz

Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.

Source Unknown

Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

Nicholas Evans, The Horse Whispe

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.

Michael Jackson