Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Philip R. Zimmermann

Nothing recedes like success. Walter Winchell, American Columnist and Broadcaster (1897-1972)

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI)

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they...

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf

The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Faramir