There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

Ravi Zacharias

Those who know the rules of true wisdom are baser than those who love them. Those who love them are baser than those who follow them.

Leo Tolstoy

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Henry David Thoreau

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Ralph Inge

There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

I would be presumptuous, indeed, to present myself against the distinguished gentlemen to whom you have listened if this were a mere measuring of abilities; but this is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to speak to you in defence of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty

William Jennings Bryan, Cross of

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Katharine Hepburn

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

Robert Fitzgerald