The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of. 

--Blaise Pascal

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.  I rejoice in life for its own sake. 

--George Bernard Shaw

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

--Robert Lynd

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

--Henry Miller, (1891-1980)

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

--Isaac Asimov

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

--Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832)

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

- Charles De Gaulle

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want."

--Clive Barnes

No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.

--Turkish proverb

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

--Isaac Asimov, (1920-1992)

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? 

--Thomas Henry Huxley

Man is born to live, not to prepare to live. 

--Boris Pasternak

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. 

--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The louder he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons. 

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 

--Shakespeare, (1564-1616)

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders.

--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. 

--Isaac Newton,(1642-1727)

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. 

--Martin H. Fischer

Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching. 

--Yogi Berra

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics; for these are the measure of his purpose.

--Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. 

--William Penn

This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right. 

--Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. 

--Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)