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?

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

Michael Arad

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp

Terry Pratchett

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Tacitus

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

E. B. White

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Theodore Bikel

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.

Phil Bredesen

Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth.

Rupert Sheldrake

Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.

Titus Lucretius Carus

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson