If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

Samuel Johnson

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Warren Mitchell

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

Christopher Hitchens

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Carol Burnett

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.

Robert Ballard

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

Albert Camus

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Rowan D. Williams

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625

Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Bertha von Suttner

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

Mitt Romney

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Richard Rorty