We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Oscar Wilde

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Sigmund Freud

DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.

Terry Pratchett

Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.

James Hal Cone

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Mario Puzo

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

James Redfield

He who marries for money earns it.

Yiddish Proverb

I once said cynically of a politician, Hell double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant

I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with stone clubs.

Albert Einstein

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Samuel Johnson

Well, God knows you're barely standing but you've got to carry this heavy load.

Joe Brooks