Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Kevin Brooks

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.

Patty Hearst

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Socrates

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

Erasmus Darwin

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Emilio Estevez

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Elia Kazan

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

Tracey Gold

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

James Newman

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi