To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Chaim Potok

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Abraham Lincoln

The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.

Elisabeth Eaves

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

Sigmund Freud

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Jodi Picoult

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

Sun Tzu

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

An unused life is an early death.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Henry Ford, "Quoted in Forbes",

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Charlie Brooker

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

Vivienne Westwood

A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.

George Gurdjieff