Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.

Michael Lipsey

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

Harry S Truman

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, “Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,” and an optimist who says, “Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.” Either way, nothing happens.

Yvon Chouinard

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

Donny Osmond

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Grace Murray Hopper

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

Jack Kevorkian

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Eliot Spitzer

I love to hit people. I love to.

Mike Tyson

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Henry Ward Beecher

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Huston Smith