Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Paul Santaguida

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Terry Pratchett

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

George William Curtis

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger -- to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

William Wordsworth

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Jack Nicholson

But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?

Oliver Sacks

Your nature is the Buddha.

Bodhidharma

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

Tom Waits

Distance lends enchantment to the view

Mark Twain

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

H.R. Haldeman

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

Peter Andre