My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle I

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

Source Unknown

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Terry Pratchett

[W]as verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

Oscar Wilde

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Lewis Thomas

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.

Peter Davison

The last Christian died on the cross

Friedrich Nietzsche

No one should be rich except those who understand it.

Johann von Goethe

Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

Oscar A. Romero