Quotations.

I love you is not a message, it's a conversation

Without love we all end as employees of life. It is love for our work that makes us entrepreneur and allows us to enjoy the sweet joys of risk-taking.

Togetherness is not caused by physical proximity but by believing in the same cause with the same intensity.

nerd \'n&rd\ n [perhaps from nerd, a creature in the children's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950) by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) Date: 1951] : an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person; especially : one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits {computer nerds} - nerd7ish /'n&r-dish/ adjective - nerdy /-dE/ adjective

Reporter: "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
M.K. Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."

Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare or well-done.

Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich.

Why be born again, when you can just grow up?

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper

By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect "Hungry."

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

...no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You will never escape the will of the mob, about the best anyone has ever figured out to do is herd them into voting booths

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on 11 September and that gives us the right to interpret all future events in a way that everyone else in the world must agree with, and if they don't, they can go straight to hell.

Fighting bigotry one smile at a time

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
In the beginning a flame, very pretty,
Often hot and fierce,
But still only light and flickering.
As love grows older,
Our hearts mature
And our love becomes as coals,
Deep-burning and unquenchablE

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.”

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

The Bush administration thinks "homeland security" is the root password to the Constitution.

I don't believe there is a God. I don't say 'I dont beleive in God' because that implies there is a God for me not to beleive in.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Remember to always dream. More importantly to make those dreams come true and never give up.

Friendship is different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, it is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law, as are children. But friendship is freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised. Friends never cheat each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height, is an ecstasy.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Science can tell us what is happening, and how, but surely not why.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

Without deviation, progress is not possible.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

I do my thing, and you do your thing.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations.
And you are not in this world to live up to mine.
You are you, and I am I,
And if by chance we find each other,
It's beautiful.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

an error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propogation, nor does the truth become error because nobody will see it

While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the thought that that must be where they make them.

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God."

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

If I am not for myself, who will be?
If I am only for myself, what am I?

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Don't hate the media, become the media.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be. When you love, everything will come right. Love has its own action. Love, and you will know the blessings of it. Keep away from the authority who tells you what love and what it is not. No authority knows and he who knows cannot tell. Love, and there is understanding.

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all run around in a darkened room munching pills and listening to repetitive music...

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart about, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Beware of the man who has spent many years learning and is still ignorant. He is filled with resentment for the rest of us who have come to our ignorance the easy way.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

By any means necessary

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No'.

I have stood in a meeting with hundreds of youngsters and joined in while they sang, "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around." It's not just a song; it is resolve. A few minutes later, I have seen those same youngsters refuse to turn around before a pugnacious Bull Connor in command of men armed with power hoses. These songs bind us together, give us courage together, help us march together.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

Any view of things that is not strange is false

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there is no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, There's a chance you may contribute to the making of a better world. The choice is yours.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety over not to be thought poor.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.

Religion is what the common people see as true, the wise people see as false, and the rulers see as useful.

Warning: Some ideologies on the Net are smaller than they appear.

Vivir en miedo es virir a media.(A life lived in fear is a life half-lived)

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.

After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead

Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

a world that uses preemptive strikes is a world that will always be at war

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Calvin: "Leave it to Mom to interrupt our repartee."
Hobbes: "Just when I had you wriggling in the crushing grip of reason too..."

If there ever comes a day
When we can't be together
keep me in your heart,
I'll stay there forever.