There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
Steven Wright

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
Anais Nin

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Sigmund Freud

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Edgar Allan Poe