The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Having learnt from experiment and argument that a stone falls downwards, a man indubitably believes this, and always expects the law he has learnt to be fulfilled.But learning just as certainly that his will is subject to laws, he does not and cannot believe it.However often experiment and reasoning may show a man that under the same conditions and with the same character he will do the same thing as before, yet when, under the same conditions and with the same character, he approaches for the thousandth time the action that always ends in the same way, he feels as certainly convinced as before the experiment that he can act as he pleases. Every man, savage or sage, however incontestably reason and experiment may prove to him that it is impossible to imagine two different courses of action in precisely the same conditions, feels that without this irrational conception (which constitutes the essence of freedom) he cannot imagine life. He feels that, however impossible it may be, it is so, for without this conceptions of freedom not only would he be unable to understand life, but he would be unable to live for a single moment.He could not live, because all man's efforts, all his impulses to life, are only efforts to increase freedom. Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom.A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.If the conception of freedom appears to reason a senseless contradiction, like the possibility of performing two actions at one and the same instant of time, or of an effect without a cause, that only proves that consciousness is not subject to reason.

Leo Tolstoy

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Walter Gilbert

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Bill Maher

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

Please all, and you will please none.

Aesop

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

Patrick Troughton

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Paul Ryan

I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not.

Dave Mustaine

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Henry David Thoreau

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

As long as we're together, I'm ready for anything.

Cassandra Clare