Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

Time was when I despised the body:But then I saw the God within.The Body I relaised is the Lord's temple;And so I began preserving it with care infinite.

Thirumoolar

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

William Shatner

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

Pope John Paul II

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.

Karl Pearson

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Bill Gates

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word human.

Suzanne Lafollette

If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known.Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear.Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time.

Sidney Jourard, The Transparent

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Cameron Dokey

Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Mario Monti