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I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey, in Success and Failure

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary, in Men and Women

He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius, in Work and Recreation

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in Success and Failure

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy, in Art and Literature

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in Wisdom and Ignorance

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

Niels Bohr, in Science and Religion

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

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

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism