I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Abraham Cahan

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

Georges Bataille

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

Albert Einstein

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

Science is not religion. We're not going to be able to answer the why questions. But when you put together all of what we know about the universe, it fits together amazingly well.

Lisa Randall

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

Criss Jami

Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear

Stephen King

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

J. K. Rowling

The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.

Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antpro

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Simon Mainwaring

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Lord Nelson