It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed

Sir William Temple

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Thomas Aquinas

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

Jerome Cady

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Lord Melbourne

You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Rumi

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

Robert Bork

I were but little happy, if I could say how much

William Shakespeare

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Britney Spears

All actual life is encounter.

Martin Buber, I and Thou, 1923

A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap.

Kurt Vonnegut

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

Theo de Raadt

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

King Abdullah II