Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Woodrow Wilson

Beauty isn't made of sugar.

Diana Wynne Jones

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Henry David Thoreau

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Toba Beta

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

R. Foreman

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.

Russell Brand

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

Baruch Spinoza

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

Kevin Smith