The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

What me worry? I never do. Life is one charming ruse for us lucky few. Have I fooled you, dear? The time is coming near when I'll give you my hand and I'll say, It's been grand, but... I'm out of here I'm out of here

St. Vincent

I have a map of the United States...actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.

Steven Wright

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

Aldous Huxley

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Robert H. Schuller

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Joe Baca

Dreams are a scientific fact.

Robyn Hitchcock

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ovid

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

John Green

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voil? une chose!

Ezra Pound

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

George Eliot

Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood in Mr Young.

Neil Gaiman