The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Thomas Merton
Creativity is not the finding of a thing but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell Lowell
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
George Orwell
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Doug Coupland
Every fact is related on one side to sensation and on the other to morals. The game of thought is on the appearance of one of these two sides to find the other: given the upper to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams
Marriage n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master a mistress and two slaves making in all two.
Ambrose Bierce
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracies are indeed slow to make war but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable rather than a vindictive peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr
