Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.

Buddha

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so. The trick is to want the right things, then science will provide you with the most effective methods of achieving them.

Richard Dawkins

Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.

William Shakespeare

La molesse est douce, et sa suite est cruelle.

John Quincy Adams

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marguerite Gardiner

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

Jane Austen

The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.

Adlai Stevenson

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Hugh Laurie

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

Eric Idle, (attributed)

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Rebecca West