Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man. Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who I am.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
- Nancy Astor

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
- I. F. Stone

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair, than the sage among his books.
For to you, kings & armies are things mighty & enduring.
To him, mere toys of the moment, to be overturned at the flick of a finger.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller