Every vice has its excuse ready.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.

Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Neil Gaiman

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Frank Rich

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

Denny McDonough

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Abraham Lincoln

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

Antonin Artaud

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.

Debby Boone

Giving is true having.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Herbert Simon