The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

Everything is politics.

Thomas Mann

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

William Osler

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Anon.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

George Gershwin

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

Kurt Vonnegut

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Plato

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

C. S. Lewis

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Hubert H. Humphrey

We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.

Herbert Hoover