Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Alexander Hamilton

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Thomas Paine

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jean Paul

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Leon Trotsky

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

Without health, life is not life, it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Buddha

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Soren Kierkegaard

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Erica Jong