The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

George R.R. Martin

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Bob Dylan

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Wangari Maathai

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

Benjamin Franklin

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

Bodhidharma

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Oscar Wilde

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Robert Fanney

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character.

Eric Holder

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

Ozzie Zehner