People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
~ Søren Kierkegaard

Individuel Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
~ Winston Churchill

It is part of our lives, in a way, that we cannot wake up in the morning and go through life without music and without having this essential aspect of it, that music means just as much as eating and drinking or living.
~ Janos Starker, cellist.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate him. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything he believes or does. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise conviction to be compassionate.
~ Rick Warren

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognise anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires.
~ Pope Benedict XVI

I believe that in this mad world, the only thing that is sane are the arts.
~ Frank Gehry

Environmentalism is the successor to failed socialism as justification for all-pervasive rule by a politburo of experts.
~ Vaclav Klaus

It’s a mistaken prejudice of our times to think that the only way to cheer someone up is to tell them something cheerful. Exaggerated tragic pronouncements work far better.
~ Alain de Botton

You know you grew up in the wrong part of the town when most of your friends are dead, in witness protection, or serving life sentences.

Friendship and money: oil and water.
~ Mario Puzo

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~ Bill Gates

Life would be a lot easier if we didn't get upset about about other people's dumb thoughts and bad feelings and we instead consider how poorly those thoughts and feelings are processed. Most people aren't smart thinkers.

Every person is guilty of all the good he did not do.
~ Voltaire

Unforgiveness is like taking poison and then expecting someone else to slowly die.
~ T.D. Jakes

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

If, at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
~ Albert Einstein

Life begins at the end of the comfort zone.

A sincere giver of a gift expects nothing in return. Even a meal is offered without anticipation of a token of appreciation for the hostess as etiquette suggests.

1. The fool understands the phrase “something than which nothing greater can be thought.”
2. Hence, “something than which nothing greater can be thought” exists at least in the fool’s mind.
3. It is greater to exist in reality than to exist in the mind alone.
4. So if “that than which nothing greater can be thought” existed only in the fool’s mind, it would be possible to think of something greater (the same thing existing in reality).
5. But this would be a contradiction, since it is impossible to think of something greater than “that than which nothing greater can be thought.”
6. Hence “something than which nothing greater can be thought” must exist both in the fool’s mind and in reality. God exists!
~ St. Anselm of Canterbury