It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Herbert Simon

Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a mainstay of the philosophy of science.

William Poundstone

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

William Blum

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

Ted Dekker i The Bride Collector

Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance.

English Proverb

We live but a fraction of our lives

Henry David Thoreau

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Jim Carrey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Emma Thompson

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Jodi Picoult

Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Thomas Fuller