Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

~ Antoine Del Saint - Exupery

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. 

~ Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890) 

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. 

~ Daniel Dennett, philosopher, writer, and professor (b. Mar 28 1942) 

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. 

~ Dario Fo, actor, playwright, theater director, Nobel laureate (b. 24 Mar 1926) 

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. 

~ Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst and author (23 Mar 1900-1980) 

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot. 

~ Derek Bok, lawyer and educator (b. 22 Mar 1930)

Our shouting is louder than our actions,

Our swords are taller than us, 

This is our tragedy.

In short, we wear the cape of civilization. But our souls live in the stone age. 

~ Nizar Qabbani, poet and diplomat (21 Mar 1923-1998) 

Shelved rows of books warm and brighten the starkest room, and scattered single volumes reveal mental processes in progress - books in the act of consumption, abandoned but readily resumable, tomorrow or next year. 

~ John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009) 

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. 

~ Bayard Rustin, civil rights activist (17 Mar 1912-1987) 

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. 

~ James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world. 

~ Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959) 

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. 

~ Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (14 Mar 1879-1955) 

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. 

~ Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001) 

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. 

~ Aristotle Onassis

What I want to happen to religion in the future is this: I want it to be like bowling. It's a hobby, something some people will enjoy, that has some virtues to it, that will have its own institutions and its traditions and its own television programming, and that families will enjoy together. It's not something I want to ban or that should affect hiring and firing decisions, or that interferes with public policy. It will be perfectly harmless as long as we don't elect our politicians on the basis of their bowling score, or go to war with people who play nine-pin instead of ten-pin, or use folklore about backspin to make decrees about how biology works. 

~ PZ Myers, biology professor (b. 9 Mar 1957) 

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed. 

~ Luther Burbank, horticulturist (7 Mar 1849-1926) 

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man! 

~ George Gamow, physicist and cosmologist (4 Mar 1904-1968) 

If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. 

~ William Godwin, philosopher and novelist (3 Mar 1756-1836) 

One does not advance the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water. 

~ Multatuli (pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novelist (2 Mar 1820-1887) 

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. 

~ Tzvetan Todorov, philosopher (b. 1 Mar 1939) 

Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world. 

~ Rukmini Devi Arundale, dancer and choreographer (29 Feb 1904-1986)