Nothing is accidental in the universe -- this is one of my Laws of Physics -- except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

Michel de Montaigne

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

S.E. Hinton

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

Marcus Garvey

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

Edward Gibbon

[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.

Christine de Pizan

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

Joan Rivers

The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a...conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider more important matters of big business and fornication.

W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and A

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown

My power is immeasurable; My truth inexplicable, unfathomable.

Sathya Sai Baba

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

Charlie Brooker

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Paul Valery