The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

Enid Bagnold, Autobiography, ch.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.

Ali A. Saleh

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

James Hillman

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

Barbara Boxer

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Charles Lamb

Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

Buddy Guy

Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much since the war started. The main difference, they say, is that he's started watching the news and taping Sponge Bob.

Conan O'Brien

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

Ed Case

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt because he leaves a pyramid in every room.

Rodney Dangerfield

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Annie Dillard, Total Eclipse Tea