...and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)

Torkom Saraydarian

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, all the Papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent. It does not occur that the inspection of the papers asked for, can be relative to any purpose under the cognizance of the House of Representatives, except that of an impeachment, which the resolution has not expressed. I repeat, that I have no disposition to withhold any information which the duty of my station will permit, or the public good shall require to be disclosed: and in fact, all the Papers affecting the negotiation with Great Britain were laid before the Senate, when the Treaty itself was communicated for their consideration and advice. The course which the debate has taken, on the resolution of the House, leads to some observations on the mode of making treaties under the Constitution of the United States.

George Washington

Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

If we're given a number of circumstances to deal with, the brain goes into this mode of trying to find a solution, and it's amazing how good we are at it.

Jon Brion

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Edward Eggleston

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

John Dickinson

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter