No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Arthur Hoppe

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

Johnny Vegas

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde

There is not grief that does not speak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

Jodi Picoult

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Will Rogers

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Albert Einstein

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

Henry Ward Beecher

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D Eisenhower

One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.

Norman Mailer