Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

John Piper

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Lao Tzu

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

Owen Chamberlain

Cruel, but composed and bland,Dumb, inscrutable and grand,So Tiberius might have sat,Had Tiberius been a cat.

Matthew Arnold

Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.I raise the glass to my mouth,I look at you,I sigh.

W.B. Yeats

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Terry Pratchett

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

Harrison Ford

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

Milton Berle

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Samuel Johnson

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Orville Redenbacher