Youth holds no society with grief.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

William Shakespeare

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. If it is held that the instinct for preserving the species should always be obeyed at the expense of other instincts, whence do we derive this rule of precedence? To listen to that instinct speaking in its own case and deciding in its own favour would be rather simple minded. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest. By the very act of listening to one rather than to others we have already prejudged the case. If we did not bring to the examination of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. And that knowledge cannot itself be instinctive: the judge cannot be one of the parties judged: or, if he is, the decision is worthless and there is no ground for placing preservation of the species above self-preservation or sexual appetite.

C.S. Lewis

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Stephen King

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.

Natalie Coughlin

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

Midori Ito

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Hosea Ballou

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

Alexander Pope