Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Jonathan Weiner

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Dar Williams

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mignon McLaughlin

Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.

Phillip Hauge Abelson

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Paul Robeson

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Albert Camus

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jean Paul Richter

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.

John W. Gardner

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Richard Stine