Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Desmond Tutu

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Archibald MacLeish

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Bryan Lindsay

Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.

Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Ac

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

Jacob Bronowski, The Sense of Hu

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

Muriel Barbery

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.

Friedrich von Schiller

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

Bill Maher

Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde