If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Murray Bookchin

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

Aleister Crowley

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Erma Bombeck

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert G. Ingersoll

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Ayn Rand

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Arthur Holly Compton

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Anthony Burgess

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Bernard Meltzer