Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.

John Dewey

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga, The Orator

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

Paulo Coelho

Better never begin than never make an end.

George Herbert

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; theyknow all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

George Eliot

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

Stephen Hawking

My father is an amazing man.

Sherman Alexie

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Dan Quayle

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Marcel Proust

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

Lisa Snowdon