Get busy living or get busy dying.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Boris Yeltsin

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Joseph Brodsky

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

Sir Philip Sidney

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Lawrence Durrell

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

John L. Lewis

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Come, come, said Tom's father, at your time of life, There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake-- It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife. Why, so it is father--whose wife shall I take?

Thomas Moore

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

E. M. Cioran

If you don't know the trees you may be lost in the forest, but if you don't know the stories you may be lost in life.

Anon., (Siberian Elder)

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Richard M. Nixon