He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

Thucydides

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Ben Stein

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

The whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Dickens

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Jonathan Davis

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Anish Kapoor

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander Maclaren

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Johann Kaspar Lavater