Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Kahlil Gibran

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jos

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

Edward Koch

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

David Suzuki

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Dalai Lama

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respond. Some of the people are going to be uninterested and some people are going to be mad for some reason, which is their business. That's just the way the world is.

Charlie Kaufman

...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

E.J.H. Corner

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

Glenn Beck

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin

When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.

Anton Chekhov

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

Dave Barry