The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems -- the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

Anthony Burgess

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

William James

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Bob Dylan

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A. R. Ammons

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

Nigel Barker

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women? It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few; as we have learned to our sorrow.

Judge Learned Hand

All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other---by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.

Oscar Wilde