The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Ramakrishna

By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May.

John Burnham Schwartz

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

Elizabeth Janeway

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

John L. Phillips

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Jonathan Mayhew

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Clive Barker

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Thomas A. Edison

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Kin Hubbard