The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Tony Campolo

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Edward Albee

There is a wisdom of the Head, and... there is a wisdom of the Heart.

Charles Dickens

Chorus : Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

Aristophanes

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Khalil Gibran

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

Cass Sunstein

Prospect is often better than possession.

Thomas Fuller

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

David J. Wolpe

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Carl Hiaasen

What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

Larry Page