What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling

Abraham Lincoln

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

Moliere

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Alan Clark

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Jay Inslee

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Abraham Lincoln

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

Kahlil Gibran

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

Jules Renard

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end to divine things.

Hippocrates

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche