World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Tom Holt

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

William C. Bryant

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

Hannah More

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

Eknath Easwaran

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

Robert Creeley

Even though I never worked with her, it was still really cool to have Brooke Shields on set. She was so nice and so funny.

Atticus Shaffer

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

Murray Bookchin

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

Doug Horton