Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Cormac McCarthy

It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glass is falling hour by hour, the glass will fall for ever, But if you break the bloody glass you won't hold up the weather.

Louis Macneice

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Walt Whitman

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Vittorio Alfieri

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

Herb Caen

Will you look back on life and say "I wish I had" or "I'm glad I did"?

Zig Ziglar

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Benjamin Disraeli

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

David Rockefeller

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Garry Trudeau

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.

Harold Wallace Ross