Don't you wish that we could forget that kiss And see this for what it is That we're not in love

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

William Shakespeare

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

Jeff Goodell

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Bertrand Russell

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Hoffer

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.

Henry Benjamin Whipple

Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

W. H. Auden

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

Thomas Wolfe

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Kahlil Gibran

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Elbert Hubbard

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Kristin Hersh