It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

Theodore Roosevelt

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Benjamin Franklin

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Mitch Albom

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Heinrich Heine

When people go to work, they don

Lee J. Colan, Passionate Perform

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

Woody Allen

We only see what we aim at.

Jordan B. Peterson

Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

Lewis H. Lapham

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Michael Pollan

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie...

Carl Sagan