I think the reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

Albert Einstein

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

Leslie Bibb

What is all Knowledge too, but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials.

Thomas Carlyle

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X Cringely

Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.

Moasi

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Tim Allen

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Enrico Fermi