Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

My last words? Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse.

Kurt Vonnegut

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

Albert Camus

Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.

Eugene J. Martin

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Jeff Miller

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

John Berger

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Susan Sontag

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Johann von Goethe

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Jessica Brown Findlay

God had created the world in play.

Sri Ramakrishna

My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.

Nathan Lane

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau