Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Maurice Sendak

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Isaac Asimov

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

William Glasser

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

Patrick Marber

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

Eugene Delacroix

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

It's a very strange thing, love. You can't get rid of it. If you try to give it out, you get more back. If you try to hang onto it, you lose it.

Warren Buffett

Without Culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle.This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Albert Camus

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Jean de La Fontaine

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Eli Stanley Jones

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Johann von Goethe