How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Thomas Jefferson

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Andy Warhol

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status.

Gwyneth Paltrow

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

Jean Rostand

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

George W. Bush

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Martin H. Fischer

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Thomas L. Masson

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them that's the essense of inhumanity.

George Bernard Shaw

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Glen Buck

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Dan Millman