For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Paul Eldridge

The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emil

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.

Michel de Montaigne

It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Rob Thomas

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams.

Archie Lee Moore

I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. It's just so much better here than anywhere else. It's better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it.

Curtis Stone

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

Michelle Trachtenberg

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

Cheryl Hines

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Ronald Reagan

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

C. S. Forester

Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism--obedience and love are.

Rebecca M. Pippert