We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.

G. W. F. Hegel

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

William James

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Alexander Pope

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all.

Jerry Brown

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Les Brown

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.

Vance Palmer

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Laura Dern

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Thomas Kempis

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Richard Selzer