The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

Calvin Coolidge

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

Fred Allen

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Mark Twain

But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartlessness and unreason or their opposites: it is neither perfect nor beautiful nor noble, and has no desire to become any of these; it is by no means striving to imitate mankind! It is quite impervious to all our aesthetic and moral judgements! It has likewise no impulse to self-preservation or impulses of any kind; neither doe sit know any laws. Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress...

Friedrich Nietzsche

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

An old man turned ninety-eightHe won the lottery and died the next dayIt's a black fly in your ChardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too lateIt's a traffic jam when you're already lateIt's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife.

Alanis Morissette, Song Ironic

The more we have the less we own.

Meister Eckhart

Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.

Philip Henry

I know that my race must change.

Chief Joseph

You can't start at the top.

Samuel Levenson

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

Brigitte Bardot

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

William Frederick Book