Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

To rid ourselves of our shadows -- who we are -- we must step into either total light or total darkness. Goodness and evil.

Jeremy P. Johnson

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

George Santayana

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Emil Cioran

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Tori Amos

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

Abraham Lincoln

He was a wise man who invented God.

Plato

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Marlene Dietrich

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Eartha Kitt

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Janet Suzman