All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.

Aneurin Bevan

To understand life, and love it to its depths in a living being, that is the being's task, and that his masterpiece; and each of us can hardly occupy his time so greatly as with one other; we have only one true neighbor down here.

Henri Barbusse

The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty.

C.S. Lewis

Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.

Kurt Vonnegut

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Terry Pratchett

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

George Herbert

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

Lana Del Rey

Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Konrad Lorenz

Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.

John Green

I think we've been dulled by capitalism. We're just blobs now - we're so worried about how we can keep paying the lease on the car, the mortgage, the lease on the toaster and all that. You can't really think about much else. If you lose that, you lose the whole lot.

Rupert Everett

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Arthur Golden

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Aristotle