The wise are wise only because they love.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein, in a letter to

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Franz Grillparzer

Even those who do not, or cannot, avail themselves of a scientific education, choose to benefit from the technology that is made possible by the scientific education of others.

Richard Dawkins

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus

In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.

Paula Deen

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Hans Hofmann

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Edward Albert