The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mahatma Gandhi

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death.

Edgar Allan Poe

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

Antoine Lavoisier

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Norman Borlaug

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Margaret Deland

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G. K. Chesterton

Believe me my young friend; there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the

The male function is to produce sperm. We now have sperm banks.

Valerie Solanis

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

Katherine Mansfield