Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Epicurus

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Soren Kierkegaard

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful

Martin Luther King Jr.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Henry David Thoreau

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.

General Robert E. Lee

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Steve Maraboli

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Stephen King

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight.

Elias Canetti

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.

Dwain K. White Sr.