Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance, 1994, p. 287

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin

…greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right....

The time for thinkers has come. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer

Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures