If you do not understand the Golden Rule, which is the most important law in the universe, then you are in trouble. All other rules in your holy books combined — are not as valuable as the ONE Golden Rule. Take two minutes to learn the most crucial law in life. Killing another human comes with the highest penalty, regardless of how you justify it. All life is sacred (Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem)
I’m healthy as an ox. And you?” “To compare myself with a bovine would be both ridiculous and insulting, but I’m fit as ever, if that is what you are asking. (Christopher Paolini, Brisingr)
And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis (Luther Burbank)
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity. (Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations)
If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get amateur security (Bruce Schneier)
One who fears failure limits his activities (Henry Ford)
For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free (Andrea Levy)
Every society has the criminals it deserves. (Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks)
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever (Elizabeth Gilbert)
If you have ever felt hopeless, if you have ever believed that all the bad things in your life were beyond redemption, if you have ever felt unworthy of being loved or accepted, if you have ever feared what would happen if people found out whatever it is that haunts you – I get it. I have been there, too (Steve Austin, Self-Care for the Wounded Soul: 21 Days of Messy Grace)