Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Kurt Vonnegut

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Richard Perle

What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

Kurt Vonnegut

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Nolan Ryan

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

Thomas Huxley

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Louis D. Brandeis

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle