Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

He was rather a low sort of pony. The fact is, he had been originally jobbed out by the day, and he never quite got over his old habits. He was clever in melodrama too, but too broad--too broad. When the mother died, he took the port-wine business.''The port-wine business!' cried Nicholas.'Drinking port-wine with the clown,' said the manager; 'but he was greedy, and one night bit off the bowl of the glass, and choked himself, so his vulgarity was the death of him at last.

Charles Dickens

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Stephen Hawking

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Eugene Ionesco

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.

Russell M. Nelson

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don't feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Marriage changes everything.

Marilyn Manson

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

Mary Douglas

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

Victor Hugo

The state was made for man, not man for state.

Albert Einstein