"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." - Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." - Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-)

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'." - unknown

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene