While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

Wally Lamb

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Graham Greene

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Jean Cocteau

(I) once asked Richard Feynman whether he thought of mathematics and, by extension, the laws of physics as having an independent existence. He replied: The problem of existence is a very interesting and difficult one. if you do mathematics, which is simply working out the consequences of assumptions, you'll discover for instance a curious thing if you add the cubes of integers. One cubed is one, two cubed is two times two times two, that's eight, and three cubed is three times three times three, that's twenty-seven. If you add the cubes of these, one plus eight plus twenty-seven- let's stop there - that would be thirty-six. And that's the square of of another number, six, and that number is the sum of those same integers. one plus two plus three...Now, that fact which I've just told you about might not have been known to you before. You might say Where is it, what is it, where is it located, what kind of reality does it have?' And yet you came upon it. When you discover these things, you get the feeling that they were true before you found them. So you get the idea that somehow they existed somewhere, but there's nowhere for such things. It's just a feeling...Well, in the case of physics we have double trouble. We come upon these mathematical interrelationships but they apply to the universe, so the problem of where they are is doubly confusing...Those are philosophical questions that I don't know how to answer.

Richard Feynman, cited by Paul D

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

Charles Kuralt

A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.

Daniel Yankelovitch

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Julien Smith

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Franz Kafka

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

Sa'di