Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Voltaire

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Amos Traver

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Charlie Munger

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

Samuel G. Goodrich

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. . . . When one so exposes it [integrity] and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! And one boils over with excitement, and, shutting the book even with a kind of reverence as if it were something very precious, a stand-by to return to as long as one lives, one puts it back on the shelf.

Virginia Woolf

I make Chris' ideas come to life.

Paul Grupe

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.

Aldous Huxley

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Lyndon B. Johnson