I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Francis Picabia

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

Do I wish I could retire? Sure, but that's not life.

Carnie Wilson

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The searcher is likely to be treated as a criminal or a madman, condemned and criticized by his own society, ridiculed, even persecuted. Even if he is more fortunate--even if he is simply ignored by others--he must begin his struggle as a cripple. For to consciously reject the generalized attitudes' of the parent society is to reject positive reference points that have helped him evaluate his actions and accomplishments.This is the price of freedom on the peripheries. We are able to free ourselves from our parent culture only by destroying parts of ourselves, much as an animal might escape the hunter's trap by gnawing off its own leg. But unlike the wounded animal, the detached person is doubly crippled; however he mutilates himself, he will never quite be free of the trap but will carry it with him in his new freedom.

Donald A. Hansen, An Invitation

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development

Oscar Wilde

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Rian Johnson

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.

Robert Newton Peck

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Ben Affleck

Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

Oliver Goldsmith

The greatest thing about any civilization is the human person, and the greatest thing about this person is the possibility of his encounter with the person of Jesus Christ.

Charles Malik