The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

Mariah Carey

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Plato

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Albert Schweitzer

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Frank Zappa

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Jane Austen

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.

Christopher Hitchens

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

Anais Nin

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

G.K. Chesterton

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini