Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

Mark Twain

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Tertullian

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Wilfrid Laurier

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Cate Blanchett

I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Thomas Carlyle

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Joe Barton

Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

Criss Jami

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Marilyn Monroe

He was wild the way a mistreated dog becomes wild, not because it loves freedom, but because it has lost trust.

Orson Scott Card