Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Plato

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

Stephen Richards

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

Gwen Stefani

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Nicholas Murray Butler, The Mean

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.

Lord Chesterfield

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Margaret Fuller

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Kurt Vonnegut