In my end is my beginning.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

H.L. Mencken

I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

Niccolo Machiavelli, Machiavelli

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Neils Bohr

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Thomas Frank

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

Vanessa Paradis

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.

Eliot Spitzer

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you. So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Jour

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Craig Bruce

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Thomas Jefferson

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe