It wasn't that she necessarily wanted to socialize at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.

There were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.

What is most personal is most universal.

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed that has nothing to do with the business of the state.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. And in such cases when a rumor is only partially made of truth, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where the information may have gone wrong. It is passed on and on until some brave soul questions its validity; that brave soul refuses to bite the apple and let the apple eat him. Forced to start from scratch for the sake of purity and truth, that brave soul, figuratively speaking, fully amputates the information in order to protect his personal judgment. In other words, his ignorance is to be valued more than the lie believed to be true.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year? You forget. And then you move on.

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

For my first show at SNL, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, Okay, that happened, and I did not die. You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.