Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Karl Kraus

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Stephen Jay Gould

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Martin Luther

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Spike Lee

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

Albert Schweitzer

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Oliver Goldsmith

What a dog I got. His favorite bone is in my arm!

Rodney Dangerfield

To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Your inner strength is your outer foundation

Allan Rufus

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

George Santayana

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

J.K. Rowling

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps