Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

E.A. Bucchianeri

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

George W. Crane

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Stephen Richards

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

Wilhelm Reich

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

George W. Bush

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Alexis de Tocqueville

If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

Martin Lewis Perl

I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.

Terry Pratchett

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Harold S. Geneen

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Ronald Reagan