What's my favourite food? One you order out.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks.

Ann Romney

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Epictetus

Actual philosophers ... are commanders and law-givers: they say

Friedrich Nietzsche

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Bertrand Russell

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

John Guare

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

James Allen

Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another! And as if answering my thought, the young girl murmurs to me. My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft_djvu.txt

Anatole France, The Crime of Syl

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Georges Cuvier