It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

Samuel Johnson

We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?

Rutherford Platt

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Benjamin Franklin

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.

Elaine Seiler

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

E. O. Wilson

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

Kid Rock

I love nature and enjoy learning new skills.

Leona Lewis

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

Christy Turlington

I heard that in relativity theory, space and time are the same thing. Einstein discovered this when he kept showing up three miles late for his meetings.

Steven Wright