Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

Christopher Hitchens

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Jim Fiebig

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rumi

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.

Brigitte Bardot

The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.

Publilius Syrus

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spencer

As I squatted on the grass at the edge of the woods, the pee felt hot between my legs. I watched in puddle in the dirt, the smell of it rising into the night. There was no difference between my piss and June's. That's what i thought when I looked at the dark circle on the ground. Piss is Piss.

Sue Monk Kidd

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Kin Hubbard