How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Keith Ablow

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

Voltaire

No man, proclaimed Donne , is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made into an island ) from the tragedy of others, by our island nature, and by the repetitive shape and form of the stories. The shape does not change: there was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or another, died. There. You may fill in the details from your own experience. As unoriginal as any other tale, as unique as any other life. Lives are snowflakes-forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection), but still unique.

Neil Gaiman

A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one.

Maupassant

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Bertrand Russell

I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly)...and says, Here, you can go.

Steven Wright

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Charles Swindoll

All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

C.S. Lewis, Letters