In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

William James

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Gore Vidal

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Mary Catherwood

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Wayne Rooney

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Gustave Courbet

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Scottish Proverb

I bought an echo and you bought a gecko... stuff.

Leslie Hochsztein