I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Helen Keller

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Oscar Wilde

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Albert Camus

Love is merely madness...

William Shakespeare

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

Peter L. Bergen

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

Eric Wareheim

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

That enormously complex biological interactions are so flawlessly coordinated as to result in such obvious manifestations as human thought or the electrical activity that dries the heartbeat is as exciting to me -- actually more exciting -- than such phenomena were when I was a small boy and thought them divinely (in the supernatural sense) driven.

Sherwin B. Nuland

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Aristotle

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

NFL owners should quit worrying about silly things like players celebrating in the end zone. They should give them something to really celebrate. Get rid of the artificial surfaces.

O. J. Simpson