Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Thomas Frank

Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.

John Dryden

And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.

Vitas Gerulaitis

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Aeschylus

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

Anthony Burgess

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christopher Dawson

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

W. Somerset Maugham

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

John L. Lewis

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

Joseph Campbell

Nothing is ever as bad as the energy wasted worrying over it.

Teresa Sue McAdams

A victim mentality is a prolonged form of suicide.

Steve Maraboli