We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

Kodo Sawaki

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

Ellen Burstyn

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Voltaire

Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs.

J.K. Rowling

Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.

R. Drabek

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

Ruth Ann Minner

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Lao Tzu

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Epicurus

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible

Mark Twain

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar