What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of science is not able to make an oyster.

Flash'd from his bed the electric tidings came, he is no better, he is much the same.

Source Unknown

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

John McCarthy

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Arthur Golden

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer J. Adler

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

Lucy Liu

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Steven Wright

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Henry Miller

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

Leon Trotsky