Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man’s greatest efforts.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches make you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

I am a naturally buoyant person. I am a naturally energetic person… always have been. I have to say that it’s important for everyone, but especially for women (given our bone density issues) to walk – even ambling for a couple of miles is better than not walking at all.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks

Big productions, to me, are great – like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows – but I think that sometimes it’s distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.

You can’t cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it’s late stage.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.