Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Marlene Dietrich

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

Judith Viorst, Love, Guilt & the

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Meg Greenfield

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Aristotle

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Harry S Truman

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

Hermann Hesse

It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?

Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the R

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Glenn Beck

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Logan Pearsall Smith