Best Quotes
“Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.”
“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