I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Paul Rudd

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Bell Hooks

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

William James

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Martin Luther

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Kahlil Gibran

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Joseph Campbell

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Dick Sargent

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Brian Swimme