Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Confucius

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

George Carlin

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Reinhold Niebuhr

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Bertrand Russell

Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don't lose the passion and the love for what you do.

Nadia Comaneci

Interest? What's money interested in?' 'More money

Terry Pratchett

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. But, lest it should be supposed that I believe in many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.http://www.ushistory.org/paine/reason/reason1.htm

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason,

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. Though feminists have been arguing for years that there is a self-defining female energy, and a female libido that is not expressed merely in response to demands by the male, and a female way of being and of experiencing the world, we are still not close to understanding what it might be. Yet every mother who has held a girl child in her arms has known that she was different from a boy child and that she would approach the reality around her in a different way. She is a female and she will die female, and though many centuries should pass, archaeologists would identify her skeleton as the remains of a female creature.

Germaine Greer