I love quotes...

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid.  They are made stupid by education."  --Bertrand Russell

"A bookstore is the only evidence we have that people are still thinking."  --Jerry Seinfeld

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."  --Howard Aiken

"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there."  --Charles Darwin

"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us.  The greatest university of all is a collection of books." --Thomas Carlyle

"It is always a sad thing to understand those who were once obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved."  --Howard Spring

"A man often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."  --Joan of Arc

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."  --Voltaire

"I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."  --English Professor, Ohio State University

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one--keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."  --Mark Twain

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."  --Ernest Hemingway

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."  --Josh Billings

"Pray:  To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy."  --Ambrose Bierce

"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." --Chapman Cohen

"I've been to all parts of this grand world and have seen no greater tragedy than the heart that loves and sees it not returned.  The tragedy, of course, is for both parties."  --Ryan Vooris

"There are a billion people in China.  It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people.  Think of it.  More than a BILLION people...That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you."  --A. Whitney Brown

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."  --Navajo Proverb

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.  But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."  --Niels Bohr

"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments."  --Mad Magazine

"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."  --Tom Stoppard

"There are no facts, only interpretations."  --Nietzsche

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?  Four.  Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."  --Abraham Lincoln

"Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?"  --M.C. Escher

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."  --Jules de Gaultier

"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.  I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check."  --M.C. Escher

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  --Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."  --Homer

"A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key."  --Paul Valery

"Whoever fights monsters must take care not to become a monster himself.  For, as you stand looking deep into the abyss, the abyss is looking deep into you."  --Nietzsche

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."  --Henri Bergson

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease, and it's 100% fatal."  --Graffiti

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."  --Nietzsche

"Time is an illusion perpetuated by the manufacturers of space."  --Graffiti

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."  --Isaac Asimov

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."  --Aldous Huxley

"Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely."  --Hawkeye from M*A*S*H*

"People change and forget to tell each other."  --Lillian Hellman

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."  --Sally Field

"It's a puzzling thing.  The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away.  Puzzling."  --Robert M. Pirsig

"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.  You may be dead."  --Gelett Burgess

"It's dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."  --Voltaire

"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament."  --Germaine Greer

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."  --Anais Nin

"No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."  --Heraclitis

"If I tell you everything that is really nothing and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying.  Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying."  --Charles C. Finn

"Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew.  They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming.  But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking."  --Steve Allen

"Believe those who are seeking the truth.  Doubt those who find it."  --Andre Gide

"A man with a watch knows what time it is.  A man with two watches is never sure."  --Segal's Law

"A painting is never finished--it simply stops in interesting places."  --Paul Gardner

"I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell--you see, I have friends in both places."  --Mark Twain

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."  --Alfred North Whitehead

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."  --Anatole France

"Have no fear of perfection--you'll never reach it."  --Salvador Dali

"Chance is always powerful.  Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."  --Ovid

"Even though my world was unrecognizable and upside down, there was one thing that remained the same.  You were my friend, and you told me the truth."  --David Duchovny as Fox Mulder

"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted.  Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."  --Hans Margolius

"...she had to bear her unhappiness in solitude, uncomprehended, unconsoled.  For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.  The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body.  Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement."  --Aldous Huxley

"Feelings are everywhere--be gentle."  --J. Masai

"Well, it seems to me the best relationships, the ones that last are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship.  You know, one day you look at a person and you see something more than you did the night before.  Like a switch has been flicked somewhere and the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you could imagine yourself with."  --Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us--by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."  --Henri Frederic Amiel