After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both.

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle.

Genevieve Gorder

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

Thomas Carlyle

I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Marion Javits

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary, "Evening Standard

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.

Gerhard Kocher

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Peter McWilliams

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.

Lance Burton

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

John Mayer

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein