When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Albert Einstein

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

Rickie Lee Jones

Vice knows she's ugly, so puts on her mask

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Joe Murray

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Max Perutz

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Gautama Buddha

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

Paulo Coelho

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

Bernie Sanders

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Constance Baker Motley