A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw

The wise are wise only because they love.

Paulo Coelho

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the weekend in town astride a radiator.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

John Adams

The saying is true, The empty vessel makes the greatest sound

William Shakespeare

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

James Earl Jones

Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.

Christopher Hitchens

The writer's gift can make us see ourselves and our morals differently than our reality suggests.

Michael Eric Dyson

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Emile M. Cioran

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.

Coleman Dowell

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

Steve Maraboli