It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.

Ralph Nader

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

Thomas Jefferson

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is a little Juliet inside me, hoping I will lock eyes with my Romeo on the other side of a fish tank or through a gap in a library bookcase. Hell, even if it's behind the condiments section in a supermarket. I don't really mind.

Jessica Thompson

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Samuel Johnson

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water is indescribable in its evocations of innocence and delight.

M. F. K. Fisher

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Paul Wellstone

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Hank Ketcham

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Howard Nemerov

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Alfred Hitchcock

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

Bob Dylan