When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

Steve Cauthen

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

General Douglas MacArthur

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Johann von Goethe

But what is ? What is ?The words and do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena. I do not know why a certain event occurs; I think that I cannot know it; so I do not try to know it and I talk about . I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of .To a heard of rams, that ram the herdsman dries each evening into a special enclosure to feed, and that becomes twice as fat as the others, must seem to be a genius.

Leo Tolstoy

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.

John Green

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

Monty Python

I think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.

Mike Myers

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

Source Unknown

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

Emma Bonino

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

Sandra Bullock

Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.

Christopher Hill