Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go--and a long way from wherever you expected to go. For me, the first of these turns occurred in the summer of 1932, in the abyss of the Depression.

Ronald Reagan, An American Life

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

Ronald Steel

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Mitchell Baker

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley

Air goes in and outof my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heartbrain - and so I am

Matthew Quick

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

Marwa Ayad

Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.

Judith Olney

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Johnny Cash

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

Victor Hugo

An exact science is one that admits loss.

Genesis P-Orridge

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman