Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

To get something different, you must do something different.

Stephen Richards

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Neils Bohr

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.

Jessica Lange

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

George Eliot

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Lorraine Hansberry

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Scott Adams

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Seth Lloyd

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis