In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Hannah Arendt

You can chase a butterfly all over the field and never catch it. But if you sit quietly in the grass it will come and sit on your shoulder.

Anon.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Kirk Douglas

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

Pat Robertson

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

Nerlens Noel

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

J.K. Rowling

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward Windsor

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

Sir John Mortimer

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

Nas

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope