History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

Criss Jami

Always do right - It will please many people, and amaze the rest.

Mark Twain

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Johann von Goethe

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Jean Paul

I love cats.

Dick Van Patten

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun

Benjamin Franklin

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Stephen Hawking

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Anthony Trollope

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Christopher Morley

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Dwight D Eisenhower