...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

Benjamin Franklin

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Charles de Gaulle

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

John Green

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

Jacques Barzun

What shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.

Gwendolyn Brooks

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist.

Voltaire

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

James Wolcott

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.

Johann von Goethe

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

Rita Rudner

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Milton Friedman

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We must use time creatively.

Martin Luther King, Jr.