The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Ah, Chloris! could I now but sit As unconcern'd as when Your infant beauty could beget No happiness or pain! When I the dawn used to admire, And praised the coming day, I little thought the rising fire Would take my rest away.

Charles Sedley

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Voltaire

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

Henry Miller

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Pearl Bailey, Talking to Myself

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

Martina McBride

The real saint, Baudelaire pretends to think, is he who flogs and kills people for their own good. His argument will be heard. A race of real saints is beginning to spread over the earth for the purposes of confirming these curious conclusions about rebellion.

Albert Camus

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Theodore Roosevelt

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Robert Plant

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

Stephen King

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Friedrich von Schiller