Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

Kathie Lee Gifford

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

Victor Hugo

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

Eric Gill

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

H. L. Mencken

All problems are finally scientific problems.

George Bernard Shaw

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

David Gallagher

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

John Lyly

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

Russell Lynes

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

Tom Holt

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Warren Buffett

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Jonathan Sacks