The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Leo Tolstoy

There may indeed be those who would prefer to deny the existence of a God so powerful, rather than believe that all other things are uncertain. But let us not oppose them for the present, and grant that all that is here said of a God is a fable; nevertheless in whatever way they suppose that I have arrived at the state of being that I have reached -- whether they attribute it to fate or to accident, or make out that it is by a continual succession of antecedents, or by some other method -- since to err and deceive oneself is a defect, it is clear that the greater will be the probability of my being so imperfect as to deceive myself ever, as is the Author to whom they assign my origin the less powerful. To these reasons I have certainly nothing to reply, but at the end I feel constrained to confess that there is nothing in all that I formerly believed to be true, of which I cannot in some measure doubt, and that not merely through want of thought or through levity, but for reasons which are very powerful and maturely considered; so that henceforth I ought not the less carefully to refrain from giving credence to these opinions than to that which is manifestly false, if I desire to arrive at any certainty in the sciences.http://www.xs4all.nl/~maartens/philosophy/descartes/meditations/med1.html

Rene Descartes, Meditations On F

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Miguel de Unamuno

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

J.K. Rowling

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

Thomas Szasz

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

Quentin Tarantino

If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.

James Hilton

This above all, to thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Tim Gunn

It has been my experience that those who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.

Steve Maraboli

A wedding is such a girl thing.

Selma Blair