All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. Thomas Mann
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. François de La Rochefoucauld
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. Oscar Wilde
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. John Ciardi
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. Susan Sontag