Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt...

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

Lydia Maria Child, Philothea: A

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Robert A.F. Thurman

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

J. Martin Kohe

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

Billy Connolly

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

Tommy Lasorda

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

David Mamet

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Susan Sontag

Myth does not set out to give lessons in natural science any more than in morals or sociology.

François-Bernard Mâche

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere!

S. C. Hall

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Wayne W Dyer

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

Harry Shum, Jr.

O you had loved her sitting there, Half hidden in her loosen'd hair: Why, you had loved her for her eyes, Their large and melancholy look Of tenderness, and well mistook Their love for light of Paradise.

Joaquin Miller