Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Simone Weil

This weird thing happens when you're in a movie that has some level of success. People start offering you all kinds of things, and they just expect you to do them because they'll be good for your career. It's not about the project's integrity or anything like that.

Kristen Stewart

Without knowing it, women act as if they were taking away the stones from the path of the wandering mineralogist in order that he might not strike his foot against them - when he has gone out for the very purpose of striking against them

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Bryant H. McGill

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

Regis Philbin

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.

Bobby Knight

I have the strength to endure it all.

Moshe Dayan

Loose and forbear!

Mark Twain

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.

Abraham Lincoln

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means except by getting off his back.

Leo Tolstoy

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

William Shakespeare