When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense.

I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black

we deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as "ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

I believe that there is always something new to learn, in fact, that is one of the three reasons that I chose to become a chef, that my education is never over.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.

There has not been one day since I left that I have not thought about Haiti.

If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.

So soon as this want or power [of love] is dead, man becomes the living sepulchre of himself, and what yet survives is the mere husk of what once he was.