You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Eddie Cantor

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

Olivier Martinez

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Minna Antrim

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess

Henry Louis Mencken

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

Lance Armstrong

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammed Iqbal

The grass withers, the flower fades, but Cosmic Ordering stands forever.

Stephen Richards

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

John Green

What do you think has become of the young and old men?What do you think has become of the women andchildren?They are alive and well somewhere;The smallest sprouts show there is really no death,And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not waitat the end to arrest it,And ceased the moment life appeared.All goes onward and outward. . . .and nothing collapses,And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, S