If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

Bertrand Russell

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Will Smith

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

Mechthild of Magdenburg

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Jim Carrey

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Andrew Eldritch

For the whole year long I seeAll the wonders of faithful NatureStill worked for the love of me;Winds wander, and dews drip earthward,Rain falls, suns rise and set,Earth whirls, and all but to prosperA poor little violet.

James Russell Lowell, The Changl

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Nina LaCour

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

Beauty is not just physical.

Halle Berry