On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help treasuring each moment of our brief association.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be thou glad sleeper and thy sorrow offcast. I am the gate to all good adventure.

C.S. Lewis

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Samuel Johnson

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

Thomas Szasz

I long for your love like the length of a midget.

Jarod Kintz

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Michael Phelps

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong

Mahatma Gandhi