I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

W. Clement Stone

We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.

Norbert Wiener

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Suzanne Fields

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

Laurence Tribe

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

John Stuart Mill

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

C.S. Lewis

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

William Shakespeare

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Alfred L. Kroeber

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli