The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. (Joan Baez)
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. (Robert Francis Kennedy)
Life is too important to take seriously. (Corky Siegel)
Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power. (Susan Johnson)
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine. (Polish Proverb)
Righteous people have no sense of humor. (Bertolt Brecht)
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. (George Eliot)
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Stanislaus Lescynski)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. (Thomas Sowell)
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. (Hannah Arendt)
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. (Dalton Camp)
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. (Thomas Jefferson)
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. (Gallagher)
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. (Edith Sitwell)
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. (Frank Herbert)
One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. (Etty Hillesum)
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...What is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword. (Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky)
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. (Marita Bonner)
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (Dbjanski)