When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Beatrice Wood

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Jodi Picoult

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

Bianca Jagger

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Austin O'Malley

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Georges Braque

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher,... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Otto Weininger

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

Bobby Bowden

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Oliver Goldsmith

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilites, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

C.S. Lewis

Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you -- don't do it. Say no. That can of beer that somebody wants you to try, don't do it. Don't you ever do it. That drug that someone might want you to use, don't touch it. Stay away from it. It can destroy you.

Gordon B. Hinckley