Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

Richard E. Byrd

Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

John Muir

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

Andy Webster

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Helmut Jahn

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Bertrand Russell

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Aneurin Bevan