We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Franz Liszt

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Zig Ziglar

She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.

Z.Z. Packer

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

Joshua Foer

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

Kevin Richardson

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Brad Pitt

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Simon Van Booy

A plague a' both your houses

William Shakespeare

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Keith Henson

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

John Malkovich