A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Albert Schweitzer

Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Alfred North Whitehead

The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each others but not if they were moving.

Albert Einstein

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Benjamin Franklin

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

William Hurt

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ours is the century of enforced travel. . . of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger, Ev'ry Time We Say G

agar vaght ra talaf konid zamani fara miresad ke vaght shoma ra talaf mikonad.

William Shakespeare

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

John Keats

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw