In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

He that drinks fast pays slow

Benjamin Franklin

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, thats all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen even loveless slavery, even war or death.

Albert Camus

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Gustav Jung

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

J. T. Towbridge

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Qur'an

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Lauren Bacall

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

Ben Johnston

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Sophocles

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

John M. McHugh