Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

Italian Proverb

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Albert Camus

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

Jack Kevorkian

Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.

Jane Borodale

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the

Nobody is ecstatic about it. It's ugly, it occupies or will occupy a piece of our property, it commits us to having it there for a long period of time. On the other hand, it would be a source of income ... and it does provide a service to the community.

Stephen Richards

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

Mary J. Blige

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Linus Pauling

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates. And that, to me, is where you find out what the character of a man is.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

Tim Burton

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II