Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Otto Herman Kahn

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Amy Carter

Never praise oneself.

Bhagwan Swaminarayan

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Lily Tomlin

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle

Søren Kierkegaard

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Pe

Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.

Joe Karbo

I don't hold with prophets, said Alvin. Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.

Orson Scott Card

Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

Robert A. Heinlein