Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Joseph Brodsky

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.

Kim Chestney

Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all their business, there would yet be excluded from their deliberations, 1. infants, until arrived at years of discretion. 2. Women, who, to prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue, could not mix promiscuously in the public meetings of men. 3. Slaves, from whom the unfortunate state of things with us takes away the right of will and of property. Those then who have no will could be permitted to exercise none in the popular assembly; and of course, could delegate none to an agent in a representative assembly. The business, in the first case, would be done by qualified citizens only.

Thomas Jefferson

Bedauern ist die Trübung des Geistes und nicht seine Läuterung.

Kahlil Gibran

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean de la Bruyere

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Lee Trevino

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.

Charles Lindbergh

Keep the Magic Alive!

Debie Torkellson

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

William Blake

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Chaucer

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Hannah Arendt

The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.

Claude M. Bristol