Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid

Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.

John Shelby Spong

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

A.G. Starling

Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.

Lloyd deMause

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

Robert Duvall

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Christopher Lasch

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Mahalia Jackson

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Sergei Bubka

The Deftmenes are mad and the Dumii are sane, thought Snibril, and that's just the same as being mad except that it's quieter. If only you could mix them together, you'd end up with normal people.

Terry Pratchett

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde