Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche
[I]t seems as if pain were the prayer of the nerve for healthy blood. – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, 1840, translat
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say thats amazing, or if Id make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing. – David Blaine
