A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Aga

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

I love romantic poetry.

Richard Dawkins

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy,

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Heraclitus

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

Dennis Miller

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Henry Ward Beecher

A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.

Irvin S. Cobb

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Germaine Greer

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

James S. Coleman

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it....

Aristotle