Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

Wesley Morris

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Wayne Dyer

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.

Blaise Pascal

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.

Robert Stuberg

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

Jerry Saltz

Few men have been admired of their familiars.

Michel de Montaigne

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

Beth Ditto

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

Robert Kennedy