There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Andre Breton

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Colin Powell

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Harry S. Truman

Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.

Cyril Connolly

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Debra Messing

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

William James

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Marilyn Monroe

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Pierre Corneille

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

George Eliot

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Milan Kundera

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain