To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Mary Douglas

Growing up in the Midwest, people don't drive Porsches and Ferraris. They drive Fords and Chevys. And so even if you have the opportunity to buy a more expensive car, it doesn't occur to you because it's not what you relate to.

Luke Perry

Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

Ambrose Bierce

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone

Dorothy Parker

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thomas Carlyle

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

George Carlin

Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use his reasoning faculty in all matters involving truth, and especially as concerning his religion. He must learn to distinguish between truth and error.

John Andreas Widtsoe

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Christopher Hitchens

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign.

John Donne