I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

Charles Bukowski

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emile M. Cioran

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

Emo Philips

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.

Jean de la Bruyere

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Danish proverb

I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.

Richard Crossman

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.

Emmanuelle Beart

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Don Marquis, The Almost Perfect