I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Vincent Van Gogh

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a

Oscar Wilde

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

Samuel Butler

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Aristotle

Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.

Jennifer M. Granholm

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Carl Rakosi

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Paulo Coelho

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

Johann Lamont