History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

Thomas Carlyle

If you stop telling people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it out while they're alive.

Terry Pratchett

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

Kevin Rudd

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

Richard J. Needham

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

If you’ve never met the devil on the road of life, it's because you’re both heading in the same direction.

Anonymous

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

Florence King

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

Oscar Wilde

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Bill Wilson