Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate and insufferable, for they are only right when the principles are quite clear

She sounds very beautiful and mysterious. I say this because you told me she is beautiful, and little else, leaving the rest to mystery, and thereby making her very mysterious.

Tom Alford

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles.

John Berger

On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Terry Pratchett

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

Mehmet Oz

Speech is the small change of silence.

George Meredith

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Ray Comfort

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Marcus Aurelius

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette