Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Mahatma Gandhi

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Bernard Shaw

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

Hugh Blair

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

Meg Rosoff

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

Anne Ford

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.

Stephen King

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

William Shakespeare

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

Toba Beta

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William Wordsworth