The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Barbra Streisand

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

John Dryden

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Sc

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

John Lancaster Spalding

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Gabriel Marcel

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

Rick Derringer

Whatever you value, be committed to it and let nothing distract you from this goal. The uncommitted life, like Plato’s unexamined life, is not worth living.

Theodore Hesburgh

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffer

I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

Kahlil Gibran