A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.

Atheism is easy in fair weather.

Ronald Dunn

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.

Colette Dowling

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Randy Newman

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

Andre Breton

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Mason Cooley

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Iris Murdoch

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

William Hazlitt

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

Madeleine Albright