The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do -- that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Diane Arbus

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Albert Einstein

A contemporary man who has not participated intimately in actual work in science is, in my opinion, not a modern man. I believe that this experience in science should come early in the life of all of our pupils.

Edwin H. Land

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them

Henry David Thoreau

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Doug Larson

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

Reggie Watts

You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.

Ken Kesey

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Cesar Nascimento

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Bill Bryson

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Brandon Sanderson