To find a friend one must close one eye -- to keep him, two.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

I didn't think; I experimented.

Wilhelm Roentgen

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Jules Renard

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

Gina Gershon

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Paulo Coelho

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

Dee Dee Ramone

That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

Orson Scott Card

It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.

Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

Blanche Lincoln

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

Eubie Blake

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar R. Fiedler