Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Terry Pratchett

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.

Cassandra Clare

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Jean Paul

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.

Ben Goldacre

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

Emerson Fittipaldi

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Richard Dawkins

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Agatha Christie

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen

Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

Dar Williams