The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Criss Jami

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

Alice Walker

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.

Mikhail Bakunin

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Charles Schumer

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

Diana Wynne Jones

The first key to happiness, is to forgive.

Andrew Trinh