Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
-Simone Weil
Be good and all will leave you. And I am good only when I am One with my Self. And in that goodness all my negative emotions leave me. I don’t leave them.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-W. H. Auden
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry.
-Douglas Wilson
Hostile attitude only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive.