I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

for what after all is Youth and Beauty?

Jane Austen

The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.

Cofer Black

It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.

Hector Hugh Munro

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches our uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service.

Swami Ramdas

If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced by you, then I suggest you learn to recognize and avoid the symptoms of the zealot and the person who knows he is right. For the dissenter, the skeptical mentality is at least as important as any armor of principle.

Christopher Hitchens

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde

People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Frank Romer

We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Lenny Wilkens

Sleep is the best meditation.

Dalai Lama