It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Meister Eckhart

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

Diane Keaton

I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism consists in holding to that extremity throughout their lives.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

Jacqueline Winspear

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.

Frank Huguenard

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

Antonin Artaud

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.

Jesse Bennett

Science affirms that... Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

Simone Weil

Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations.

Criss Jami

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

H. L. Mencken

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

Alfred Adler