A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Elizabeth Bowen

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.

Henny Youngman

He who does not hope to win has already lost.

Jose Joaquin Olmedo

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H. L. Mencken

My wish for the new millennium is for all children... to grow up wiser, and stronger and more prosperous for the future than ever before.

Hillary Clinton

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death--of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lewis Mumford

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

Carl Sagan

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

A.J. Jacobs