Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Swami Sivananda

All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.

Gilbert Seldes

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

Sherman Alexie

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Joineriana

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Henry Miller

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

Kurt Vonnegut

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Martin Fleischmann

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!

John Keats

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

Octavia Butler

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

Joseph De Maistre