Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Isaac Asimov

July 4th is the 5th.

Steven Howell

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

Blaise Pascal

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time.

Henry Rollins

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Arthur Scargill

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Rattle

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Edmund Burke

He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands

Stephen King

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Oscar Wilde

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Jocelyn Murray