The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine. Second phase: they say, Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

Jonas Salk

As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

James Lane Allen

Only in the self we grope To the misty end of time: Truth has put an end to hope. What of all the heart to love? Sadder than for will or soul, No light lured it on above; Love has found itself the whole.

George William Russell

Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Samuel Butler

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

William Shakespeare

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Wisdom never lies

Homer

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

Joseph Lelyveld

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

Samuel Himmel

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Adlai Stevenson

The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.

Linda Festa