Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Sir Winston Churchill

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

Margaret Cho

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

William Shakespeare

until only infinity remained of beauty

John Ashbery

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Andrew Weil

To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

A king's son is no nobler than his company.

Scottish Proverb

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

Robert McKee

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Smith