Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target

Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

The greatest obstacle to discovering the truth is being convinced that you already know it.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?

A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Knowledge will reveal its value only when we use it to gain wisdom through experience.

It is always harder to climb the mountain. One must find strength of hope within the depths of heart to move onward.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

The episode of The Fresh Prince in Bel-Air when Will Smith's father disses him. That's sadder than when Mufasa died.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --