To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.

Aldous Huxley

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

George Eliot

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

J. Donald Walters

There is a good side to every situation.

Dr. David Schwartz

Love can't conquer anything. Love can't make a scholar into a warrior. Loving her can't make her love me.

Orson Scott Card

These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.

Albert Camus

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

LeAnn Rimes

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Plato

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus