Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

Herodotus

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Harold Bloom

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

Marlon Brando

Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Stay focused on your purpose. The Universe will take care of everything else.

Robin Sharma

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Paul Theroux

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

Dave Matthews

If equal affection cannot be,Let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.

Source Unknown

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don't amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that's how you get even with these boys.

Orson Scott Card