Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.

Richard Feynman

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Walter Gilbert

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Jodi Picoult

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

But the more he strained to think, the clearer it became to him that it was undoubtedly so, that he had actually forgotten, overlooked in his life one small circumstance - that death would come and everything would end, that it was not worth starting anything and that nothing could possibly be done about it. Yes, it was terrible, but it was so.

Leo Tolstoy

I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun.

Guy Laliberte

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Ryan Kwanten

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O'Rourke

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Ayn Rand, (interview), "Playboy"