Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Oscar Wilde

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

Rumi

The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Mary Doria Russell

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

M Scott Peck

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Lydon

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

St. Vincent

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

As we sail about our lives, conflicts arise as emotions are eradicated by sadness and anger. Fireworks of terror, love, and loss fill the once clear sky. And yet, humans are clueless to see what awaits them as they continue to wallow into self-pity. Each day means gaining new insight and developing maturity. Each day means making plentiful mistakes and befuddlement. Each day means falling in love and betraying others. Each day means one day closer to death. We want to continue living, yet we want to die. We want to love, yet we want to hate. We can say that humans are contrary.

Wise Owl

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

Gael Garcia Bernal

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen