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

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts. (G. B. Burgin)

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. (Carl Sagan)

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. (Henry Ford)

I have nothing to declare except my genius. (Oscar Wildeupon arriving at U.S. customs 1882)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

His ignorance is encyclopedic (Abba Eban)

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. (Frank Zappa)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

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)