True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

Leila Josefowicz

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Steve Martin

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Honore de Balzac

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Marco Rubio

The only menace is inertia.

St. John Perse

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Thomas Carlyle

You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.

Eva Arrington

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Randy Newman

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle