The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Estelle Getty

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job – that just doesn’t make any sense to me. That can’t be the right answer.

Larry Page

For the whole year long I seeAll the wonders of faithful NatureStill worked for the love of me;Winds wander, and dews drip earthward,Rain falls, suns rise and set,Earth whirls, and all but to prosperA poor little violet.

James Russell Lowell, The Changl

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Money cannot buy happiness.

Annni-Frid Lyngstad

A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go.

James Duffecy

I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead.

Sandra Steffen

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.

Buddha

All my life I dreamed of having someone think I was beautiful.

Maggie Osborne