You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.

Voltaire

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Barack Obama

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Michel Foucault

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.

Simone Weil

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

H. L. Mencken

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

John Cameron

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

Madeleine Albright

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

Tom Daschle

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill