Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

My business is to prevent the future.

Ray Bradbury

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Cesare Pavese

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

John Churton Collins

Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.

C.S. Lewis

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

Voltaire

It will be a marvellous thing - the true personality of man - when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge. It will have wisdom. Its value will not be measured by material things. It will have nothing. And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be. It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself. It will love them because they will be different. And yet, while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us by being what it is. The personality of man will be very wonderful. It will be as wonderful as the personality of a child.In its development it will be assisted by Christianity, if men desire that; but if men do not desire that, it will develop none the less surely. For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether things happened or did not happen. Nor will it admit any laws but its own laws; nor any authority but its own authority. Yet it will love those who sought to intensify it, and speak often of them. And of these Christ was one.Know Thyself was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, Be Thyself shall be written. And the message of Christ to man was simply Be Thyself. That is the secret of Christ.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Und

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Bertrand Russell

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Dan Rather

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

Must I go bound while you go freeMust I love a manwho doesn't love meMust I be born with so little artAs to love a man who'll break my Heart

Cassandra Clare

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

Steve Wynn

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

Anna Howard Shaw