If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Jesse Bennett

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Prince Charles

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Samuel Johnson

Everything is defeated before love.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Founding itself upon love, humility, and faith, dialogue becomes a horizontal relationship of which mutual trust between the dialoguers is a logical consequence.

Paulo Freire

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

Dan Farmer

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Oscar Wilde

The thing that would astonish anyone coming for the first time into the service quarters of a hotel would be the fearful noise and disorder during rush hours. It is something so different from the steady work in a shop or a factory that it looks at first sight like mere bad management. But it is really quite unavoidable...by its nature it comes in rushes and cannot be economized. You cannot, for instance, grill a steak two hours before it is wanted; you have to wait till the last moment, by which time a mass of other work has accumulated, and then to do it all together, in frantic haste. The result is that at meal-times everyone is doing two men's work, which is impossible without noise and quarreling. Indeed the quarrels are a necessary part of the process, for the pace would never be kept up if everyone did not accuse everyone else of idling. It was for this reason that during rush hours the whole staff cursed like demons.

George Orwell, Down and Out in P

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

Jacob Chanowski

But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

John Green

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Jack Nicholson