To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons,

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Laurence J. Peter

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Herodotus

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Hugh Jackman

La libertad es poder decir libremente que dos y dos son cuatro. Si se concede esto, todo lo demás vendrá por sus pasos contados.

George Orwell

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Gaston Bachelard

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim