I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Man sollte alle Tage wenigstens ein kleines Lied hören, ein gutes Gedicht lesen, ein treffliches Gemälde sehen und, wenn es möglich zu machen wäre, einige vernünftige Worte sprechen.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes you have to do the work and hope the career materializes.

Michael Lipsey

Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.

Alexi Giannoulias

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Clarence Darrow

Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry.

Michel Leiris

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

Cliff Stearns

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Oscar Wilde

A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

Bianca Jagger

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

Ingrid Newkirk

The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them -- no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.

Edward Fredkin's Paradox