Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.

Ernest Hemingway

To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare, señor. That’s rare and valuable.

Tibetan Proverb

The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Plato

For a change to a new type of music is something to beware of as a hazard of all our fortunes.

-Plato c. 380 BCE The Republic, Book IV, 424c

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

Christopher Poindexter

I loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.

Demetri Martin

When someone describes themselves as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

Eleanor Di Guillo

Your love shines in my heart as the sun that shines upon the earth.

Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Dolly Parton

When I was growing up in the hills of East Tennessee, I knew my dreams would come true. I know there are children in your community with their own dreams. They dream of becoming a doctor or an inventor or a minister. Who knows, maybe there is a little girl whose dream is to be a writer and singer.

The seeds of these dreams are often found in books and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.

Stephen King, "The Green Mile"

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

Johnny Depp

People cry, not because they're weak, it's because they've been strong for too long.

Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Will you shut up, man?

Martin Luther King, Jr

The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.

You first.

C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)"

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.