The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

Liam Neeson

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

When you have no freedom, then your life becomes the life of an animal.

Leo Tolstoy

All experience is subjective.

Gregory Bateson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Arthur Henderson

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

M. Night Shyamalan

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

Ambrose Bierce

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

Sean Parker

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Doug Ose

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Tw

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Harvey Milk

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau