Sex is not about reproduc-tion, gender is not about males and females, courtship is not aboutpersuasion, fashion is not about beauty, and love is not about affec-tion. Below the surface of every banality and cliche there lies irony,cynicism, and profundity.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Marilyn vos Savant

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

Abraham Lincoln

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

Daphne Delacroix

Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

Meister Eckhart

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Matthew McConaughey

We saw what happened in Jimmy Carter's administration. President Carter was a good man with the best of intentions. But he came to Washington without a good working relationship with Democratic members of Congress, which played a big part in his administration's problems.

Jim Hunt

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

J. Michael Straczynski

The only water in the forest is the River.

Neil Gaiman

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca