Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan

Besides, I myself have now for a long time ceased to look for anything more beautiful in this world, or more interesting, than the truth; or at least than the effort one is able to make towards the truth.

Maurice Maeterlinck

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Finley Peter Dunne

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

People first, then money, then things.

Suze Orman

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

Fiona Apple

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Daniel Kahneman

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth.

Anna Quindlen

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

Soren Kierkegaard