Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Walter Lippmann

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alain de Botton, On Love

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

Joseph Barbera

It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do.

Jenifer Lewis

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

John Kenneth Galbraith

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Cesare Pavese

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Hypatia

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Bertolt Brecht

Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

John Dryden

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

Phil Collins

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Terence

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

Lewis Mumford