The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.

Samuel Johnson

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Naguib Mahfouz

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

Paul Dirac

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Douglas Adams

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Frederick William Robertson

So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.

Benjamin Harrison

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

A boy or girl who knows that love abounds at home will not resent well-deserved punishment. One who is unloved or ignored will hate any form of discipline.

Dr. James Dobson