To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....

Albert Einstein

She is not fair to outward viewAs many maidens be;Her loveliness I never knewUntil she smiled on me.Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,A well of love, a spring of light.

Hartley Coleridge

If you don

James Atlas, essay: The Fall of

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

People are all crazy... but the craziest are the ones who never allow themselves to be crazy.

Paulo Coelho

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

Theodore Rubin, Love Me, Love My

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Carlos Santana

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Edward Dahlberg

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicklaus

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Francis Thompson

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

Anthony LaPaglia