Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Isaac Newton

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

Anne Sexton

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

Samuel West

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Edmund Husserl

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Benjamin Disraeli

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

Christopher Smart

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

Carol Alt

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Ted Turner

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton