If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them, and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.original French: Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d

Marcel Proust, Guermantes Way, 1

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

Proverb

For there's no rood has not a star above it; The cordial quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree, As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

Ernest Hemingway

Seven and half years ago I began my own journey. For me and my family it was a time of adversity. But during that adversity I derived a deeper faith. And born out of that adversity was a commitment to devote myself to those people and to those issues that truly matter to me.

Paul Tsongas

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

Bertolt Brecht

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

Woody Allen

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal

Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.

Keith Bostic

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis