To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

Anne McCaffrey

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Eugene McCarthy

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Malkovich

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

G.K. Chesterton

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

Andre Malraux

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Josh Billings

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl Buck

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal, Penses

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Lev Grossman

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Fiona Apple

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Michel de Montaigne