Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

It's amazing that you can listen to any song and you can always tell when there's some substance beneath it and when there isn't. Even if it's poetically written and technically brilliant, I'd rather hear something that's all over the place but has some soul to it.

Teddy Thompson

Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.

Rebecca McKinsey

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Tom Robbins

To the brave and the faithful, nothing is impossible.

Anonymous

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Doug Coupland

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Clifton Fadiman

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Orison Swett Marden

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alain Badiou