What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

Hillary Clinton

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Bear Bryant

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield

Virtue has its own reward, but no sales at the box office.

Mae West

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Kedar Joshi

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...

Karl Marx

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

Lee Grant

Another drag, and he thought that it was like having your mind shaken out like a duvet, so that it resettled without creases, so that everything became smooth and simple and easy and good.

J.K. Rowling

Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the ratio of the age of the universe to the time it takes light to traverse an atom.

Michael Flynn

Adventures are never fun while you're having them.

C.S. Lewis

If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

Neal Stephenson