A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep., Saul Bellow, US (Canadianborn) author (1915 )
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art., Dame Edith Sitwell,
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them., Rita Rudner, US comedian )
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, US science fiction author )
Prove all things hold fast that which is good., Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians,
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better., Anonymous,