Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Carol Moseley Braun

Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty.

Bashir F. Biodun

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

Benjamin Franklin

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

William Osler

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for theyshall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.

Margery Allingham, The Tiger in

All Stories are True.

John Edgar Wideman

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

We hate some persons because we do not know them, and will not know them because we hate them.

Charles Caleb Colton

From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.

James Thurber

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it.

William Shakespeare