If everything, everything were known, statistical estimates would be unnecessary. The science of probability gives mathematical expression to our ignorance, not to our wisdom.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Mary Oliver

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

American Indian Proverb, Sioux

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Bob Riley

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Danny Thomas

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life.

Lewis H. Lapham

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

Is it just me, or do you also think this is unnatural behavior in a female parent? Isn't there a federal law that says mothers are not allowed to laugh at vulnerable male children when they are required to wear stupid clothing to work?There should be.

A.E. Cannon

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Thomas Jefferson

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We talk a great deal about patriotism. What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility which will enable America to remain master of her power

Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the A

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

Bob Dylan