People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Cynthia Nelms

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Raoul Vaneigem

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

Thomas Szasz

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

Rodney Dangerfield

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Lewis Thomas

Do not mistake consequence for fate.

Kirstin Brown

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

Cassandra Duffy

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

Jodi Picoult

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

Michael Bloomberg

Genius is patience.

Isaac Newton