If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Blaise Pascal

The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.

C.S. Lewis

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.

Charles Dickens

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

Charles A. Stoddard

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

Robert Conklin

Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts to a claim that science is essentially different from and superior to all human beliefs that are not scientific statements--and this is untrue.

Richard Rhodes

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Oscar Wilde

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

Albert Camus

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Terry Pratchett