Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

You can't run from trouble, there ain't no place that far.

Splash Mountain

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai Stevenson

I drink to forget I drink.

Joe E. Lewis

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

Novalis

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

George Eliot

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

Nadia Comaneci

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.

Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.

Charles Dickens

Don't press her, said Cooper. If someone decides to leave something unsaid, my experience is that everyone is happier if they don't insist on his saying it.

Orson Scott Card

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

Alton Brown

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell