Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

Alfred E. Smith

There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Sometimes you need to get lost in order to find yourself.

Yossi Ghinsberg

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Jim Lehrer

... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

E.M. Forster

All tragedies are finished by a death,All comedies are ended by a marriage;The future states of both are left to faith,For authors fear description might disparageThe worlds to come of both. . . .

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling

Bullshit takes no genius,even fool senses its' foul.

Toba Beta

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.

Jim Rohn