It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sir Arthur Eddington

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

Helena Christensen

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being.

Pearl Buck, I Believe, 1939

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other men have said, If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire. This Christ of Galilee says, My death shall do it. Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

Herrick Johnson

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

Charles Mackay

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

Eva Longoria

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Christopher Lasch

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Henry Fielding