Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

Alex Flinn

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

Jerry Saltz

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Richard Dawkins

The facts of science, as they appeared to him, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

Bertrand Russell

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw

Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.

Terry Semel

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

Said in answer to the question: What would you advise a person to do if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on?

Karl Menninger

My Life is My Message

Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples separated from the Roman religion have imitated but imperfectly so generous a charity.

Voltaire

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Thomas Aquinas