Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Camryn Manheim

Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap

Chet Raymo

The film of evening light made the red earth lucent, so that its dimensions were deepened, so that a stone, a post, a building, had greater depth, and more solidity than in any daytime light; and these objects were curiously more individual- a post was more essentially a post, set off from the earth it stood in and the field of corn it stood out against. All plants were individuals, not the mass of crop; and the ragged willow tree was itself, standing free of all other willow trees. The earth contributed a light to the evening. The front of the gray, paintless house, facing the west, was luminous as the moon is. The gray dusty truck, in the yard before the door, stood out magically in this light, in the overdrawn perspective of a stereopticon.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wr

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.

Leo Tolstoy

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Robin Quivers

A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.

Franz Bardon

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

John Barrymore

I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

David Byrne

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Terry Pratchett