My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

Patricia Sun

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

St. Bernard

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.

Robert Casey

A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Any solution to a problem changes the problem.

R. W. Johnson

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Walter Cronkite

He spoke of humor, and thought it must be one of the chief attributes of God. He cited plants and animals that were distinctly humorous in form and in their characteristics. These he declared were God's jokes.

Mark Twain

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Eric Berne

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.

V.S. Carnes

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle