It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busy-bodies and professional public morals experts in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

Samuel Gompers

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

Russell Brand

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork.

Bible

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those cities. We began as a mineral. We emerged into plant life and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. That's how a young person turns toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans toward the breast, without knowing the secret of its desire, yet turning instinctively. Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Rumi, The Dream That Must Be Int

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

Henry James

A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense a historical.

Juliet Mitchell

We need leadership, and we need it now.

Byron Dorgan

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Georges Clemenceau

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Jodi Picoult

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Jonathan Gash

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

John Erskine