Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Albert Einstein

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Whoopi Goldberg

And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.

William Faulkner

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Barbet Schroeder

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

David Fincher

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully.

Terry Pratchett

Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.

Germaine Greer

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Laurell K Hamilton

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen