Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Jim Rohn

The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

George Bernard Shaw

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.

Dan Dierdorf

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

Melanie Griffith

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.

Lewis Thomas

Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given.

Source Unknown

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Muriel Spark

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.

Theodor Adorno

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

Jon Meacham