We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

William Shakespeare

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

Albert Einstein

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

James Madison

Love shouldn't be comfortable.

Connie Brockway

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

Lance Bass

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Thomas Mann

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

Francisco D'Anconia

While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.

Stephen Covey