I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

David Byrne

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Jim Wallis

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Alain de Botton, on Arthur Schop

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Timothy Dalton

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Joseph Addison

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Gustav Jung

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

Jodi Picoult

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Charles Darwin

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

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