• "Not the truth in whose possession any man is, or thinks he is, but the honest effort he has made to find out the truth, is what constitutes the worth of man" - Gotthold Lessing

• "If confronted with a choice between all the truth in God’s right hand and the ever live struggle for truth, coupled with eternal error, in God’s left, I would choose the left" - Gotthold Lessing

• "Lessing was a heretics’ heretic" – Walter Kaufmann

• Before he died, Rabbi Zusya said: "In the world to come they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' "They will ask me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'"

• "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler" - Albert Einstein

• "My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.  My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke; my father lashed you with whips, but I will lash you with scorpions "- Rehoboam (son of King Solomon), 1 Kings, chapter 12.

• "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning

• "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

• "I want the old low self-esteem David back" - name withheld

• "I used to lead a life of quiet desperation, now I lead a life of noisy desperation" - name withheld

• "How much better it is to weep at joy, than to joy at weeping" - Act 1, Scene 1, Much Ado About Nothing

• "I'm in pain and I'm wet and I'm still hysterical!!" - Leo Bloom from 'The Producers'

• Each of the three large clocks in the train station all showed a different time - one 11:55, another exactly noon, and a third 12:05.  "How considerate" said Ostap, "the Moscow central train station provides the traveler ten minutes grace for any appointment" - Ostap Binder from Ilf & Petrov's 'The Twelve Chairs'

• "Oh, God! You're so strict!" - Father Fyodor from Mel Brook's 'The Twelve Chairs'
  

• "You said you loved me, or were you just being kind? Or am I losing my mind?" - Steven Sondheim - Follies

• "If you can dream it, you can do it" - Walt Disney

• "For they have healed the hurt of my people slightly, saying, peace, peace, when there is no peace". - Jeremiah, chapter 8

• "Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich staerker" (that which does not kill me makes me stronger) - Nietzsche - Also Sprach Zarathustra

• "A man may either seek security or elect to live dangerously" - Nietzsche 

• "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates

• "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" - Tolstoi - Anna Karenina

• "He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind." - Proverbs 11:29

• "But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."- Isaiah 57:20&21

• "That I am a liar, I am not a big enough liar to deny!" - The Poet - Kismet

• "This particularly rapid, unintelligible patter isn't generally heard, and if it is it doesn't matter!"  - Ruddigore, Gilbert & Sullivan

• "Your lips say Jefferson, but your eyes say Stalin"  - David Laub

• "From the heart, may it return to the heart" - Beethoven

• "Entropy Increases" - Physics 101