As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

The practice of medicine is a thinker's art, the practice of surgery a plumber s.

Martin H. Fisher

We will not waver we will not tire we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

George W. Bush

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or an idea, but is really some stronger material force.

George Santayana, Persons and Pl

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place,The person, manner, and the grace,Which fools neglect; so that we find,If all the requisites are join'd,From whence a perfect joke must spring,A joke's a very serious thing.

Charles Churchill, The Ghost (bo

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible

George Orwell

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Abraham Lincoln

My neighbor has a circular driveway... He can't get out.

Steven Wright

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

Marcel Proust