Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien de la Mettrie, The Human

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

Edmund Burke

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

Tom Hopkins

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

Pius XII Pacelli

One night I came home very late. It was the next night.

Steven Wright

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Jerry Saltz

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

Karl Malone

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man, because she is an instrument of pleasure.

Victor Hugo

I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actor's Studio. She'd get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldn't leave her alone. She didn't know where to hide.

Doris Roberts

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Oscar Wilde

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

Thomas Francis Meagher