Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.

Steve Maraboli

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

David Boreanaz

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Armistead Maupin

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

William Law

Say not that you

Anon.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Martin Luther

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Sydney Smith