It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

J. William Galbraith

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Robin Gibb

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

George Eliot

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Albert Einstein

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Lew Wallace

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Leon Trotsky

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

Hal Borland

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

Jennifer Beals