It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

George Carlin

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

E.M. Forster

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God... and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Orson F. Whitney

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

Cliff Martinez

I watched the sky a long time, concluding that such beauty was reserved for distant, dangerous places, and that nature has good reason for exacting her own special sacrifices from those determined to witness them.

Richard Byrd

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Franz Kafka

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis de Sade

I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.

Jay Weatherill

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Abraham Lincoln

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Sarah Vowell

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

Chris Chocola