The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good.

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The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

Thomas Carlyle

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Edmund Burke, Speech on Concilia

He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude

Aristotle

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Albert Camus

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

Roy Romer

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.

Du Fu

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

John Ratzenberger

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Charles Stanley

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Abdolkarim Soroush