I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.

Richard Francis Burton

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces -- in nature, in society, in man himself.

Leon Trotsky

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Mark Twain

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates, Time Magazine, Janua

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

I have a Volvo S60R and it's a pretty fast car, the R says it all.

Josie Maran

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

David Ogden Stiers

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Baltasar Gracian

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

William Butler Yeats

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Thomas Jefferson