The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Richard Feynman

The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people.

Mao Tse Tung

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

Jorge Luis Borges

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Maria De Beausacq

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

Rashida Jones

Youth has become a class.

Roger Vadim

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.

Katherine Heigl

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

The Talmud

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Phillip C. Grant

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron