Best Quotes
“I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.”
“Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.”
-- Ben Okri
“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”
-- Dave Pelzer
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.”
-- Henry Louis Gates