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"We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained." »Maurice Hulst
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"All philosophy lies in two words sustain and Abstain." »Epictetus
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"Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it." »Benjamin Cardozo
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"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top." »Robert M. Pirsig
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"Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it." »Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"
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"Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking." »Jessamyn West
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"I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
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"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve." »Sophia Loren
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"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past." »Noam Chomsky
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"We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." »James Madison, (attributed)
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