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All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

 Lee Hawkins, in  Health and Disease

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

 Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

It is impossible to love and be wise.

 Francis Bacon, in  Love and Hate

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

 R. I. Fitzhenry, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in  Life and Death

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

 Doug Horton, in  Vice and Virtue

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

 Rudyard Kipling, in  Men and Women

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

 Daisaku Ikeda, in  Success and Failure

Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Success and Failure

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

 Robert G. Ingersoll, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

 Alfred Korzybski, in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

 Krystal Ann Kraus, in  Men and Women

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

 Michel de Montaigne, in  Science and Religion

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Egoist: A person of low taste, more interested in themselves than in me.

 Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in  Altruism and Cynicism

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

 Robert Byrne, in  Vice and Virtue

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

 Mahatma Gandhi, in  Law and Politics and  Work and Recreation

Even thinking is participation.

 Lassi Kämäri, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

To "be" means to be related.

 Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in  Science and Religion and  Wisdom and Ignorance

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

 Russell Banks, in  Life and Death and  Success and Failure