Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Buddha

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann von Goethe

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

George Eliot

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Marvin Minsky

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Mary Garden

This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.

R.A. Nelson

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Jean Paul Richter

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

Suzanne Fields

Woe is me! The winged words on which my soul would pierceInto the heights of love's rare universe,Are chains of lead around its flight of fire--I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychid

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland