Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.

Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.

Tom Glazer

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Josh Brolin

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Gerald. N. Weiskott

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

Louis C. K.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Karl Marx

Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.

Wolfgang Petersen

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Elbert Hubbard

I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.

Sarah McLachlan

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton