Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Robert M. Hutchins

Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.

Edmund Husserl

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

Primo Levi

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our Gross National Product now is over 800 billion dollars a year.

Robert Francis Kennedy, Remarks

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Louise L. Hay

Dick Cheney said he was running again. He said his health was fine, 'I've got a doctor with me 24 hours a day.' Yeah, that's always the sign of a man in good health, isn't it?

David Letterman

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

Kid Rock

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

Steve Martin

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Desmond Tutu