Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Great scientists are Peter Pans, still anxious to classify and explain at an age when most people are concerned with money, power and sex.

David M. Knight

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

Source Unknown

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Jim Wallis

One sheds one's sicknesses in books -- repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.

Hermann Hesse

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

Source Unknown

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Publilius Syrus

And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.

Billie Joe Armstrong

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

John Irving

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.

Richard Rorty

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Harriet Beecher Stowe