It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace.

Frank B. Kellogg

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Richard Russo

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

John Maynard Keynes

Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.

American Indian Proverb, Plains

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

David Hume

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it.

E.R. Hazlip

I wrote a few children's books... Not on purpose.

Steven Wright