People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Arlo Guthrie

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

James Wyatt

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

Muhammad Yunus

Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

Jos

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Denis Diderot

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Rumi, The Dream That Must Be Int

Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute.

C. G. Campbell

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

Eric Idle