Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Albrecht Durer

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Billy Graham

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.

Victor Hugo

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Billy Wilder

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

Alan Cumming

Good fortune and evil fortune come to all things alike in this world of time.

Moasi

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Kurt Vonnegut

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lane Kirkland

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Walker Percy

When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.

Proverb

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities -- courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning -- whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Jean Baudrillard