How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred Day Hershey

I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy.

Gillian Flynn

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

David Niven

If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.

John Lancaster Spalding

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Goldie Hawn

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

Robertson Davies

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Andy Warhol

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Karl Marx

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

Vicente del Bosque