The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.

Virgil, Aeneid, The

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Aristotle

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Paul De Man

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Stephen Jay Gould

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Richard Francis Burton

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

Henry Longhurst

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Will Durant

Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.

Berkeley Breathed

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

Stone Gossard