The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Eva Arrington

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

Chaim Potok

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Ray Manzarek

There will be sleeping enough in the grave

Benjamin Franklin

Since I was man,
 Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder
 Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never
 Remember to have heard.

William Shakespeare

[Jesus is] saying that we could be aware of, filled with, and saved by the presence of holy beauty, rather than worship golden calves.

Anne Lamott

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

Hank Nuwer, The Hazing Reader

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Herbert Hoover

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

William Shakespeare

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

Javier Bardem

My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, we're still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be.

Michael Caine

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Albert Einstein