"Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard

“To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.”

“Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.”

“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.”

“One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.”

“A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.”

“There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.”

“From the standpoint of a Middle Eastern citizen, Americans look like a bully forcing our way of life on the Islamic way of life. The notion of purity is very important in Islam, and a lot of the negative warlike actions taken against us have to do with our physical presence in the Middle East. Osama bin Laden was trying to get the American, or protesting the American military presence in Saudi Arabia. It's not surprising that our strong presence in Iraq has produced a wave of resistance anger, extreme anger in some cases, and a permissive atmosphere that allows these people to go undetected.”

“Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice.”

“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.”