The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to

Aristotle

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

Voltaire

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

James Spader

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Charles Franklin Kettering

I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Emmet Fox

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

Christopher Hitchens

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

Greg Anderson