It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

E.H. Chapin

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

Rupert Murdoch

Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something you can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

Sally Ride

I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.

Albert Einstein

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.

Tupac Shakur

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

Lenny Kravitz

Attitude Adjuster: When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you've made two people's days brighter and better.

Source Unknown

Ive said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!

Harry S Truman

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Pablo Picasso