We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

Faye Wattleton.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

George William Curtis

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb

No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves.

American Indian Proverb

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

Benjamin Carson

Give me a land of boughs in leafA land of trees that stand;Where trees are fallen there is grief;I love no leafless land.

A.E. Housman

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Donald Laird

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire

She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.

Mavis Gallant

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

H. L. Mencken